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Re: WCAG 2.2 status - Icon Description

From: Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 09:59:17 +0000
To: "Abma, J.D. (Jake)" <Jake.Abma@ing.com>
CC: David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca>, WCAG list <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Message-ID: <9896C05F-6C05-402E-8563-7A16BAAC509B@nomensa.com> 
> So the text should be something like: "For icons that solely act as labels or instructions" (+ SOLELY?!)

Personally, I thought the current text was clear on that. However, if others disagree then the case to cover is where icons are required to understand the label/instruction. If they are not relied on (tested by removing them), then they are not in scope.

So I think it would be the other way around: The object to test is the label/instruction, not the icon as such.
“For icons that are relied on to act as labels or instructions…”.

Cheers,

-Alastair
Received on Tuesday, 14 January 2020 09:59:26 UTC

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