Re: Functional Images - Icons - 3.2.4 Consistent Identification

An informative guide 100%.

I suppose something like:

1) https://fontawesome.com/icons/categories
2) https://smallbusiness.com/tech/what-mobile-icons-mean/

The first link shows typical icons under typical categories - surprisingly many!
The second link indicates the commonly understood use of these icons; and that hope that commonly used icons should not be used for other purposes. 

All the best 

Alistair


> On 15 Jun 2022, at 02:34, Katie Haritos-Shea <ryladog@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Alistair,
> 
> I think ISO/IEC JTC1, in their Accessibility work did a black and white high contrast icons standard - it was several years back. You might try to look at that for ideas.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2022, 5:34 AM Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk <mailto:redux@splintered.co.uk>> wrote:
> On 14/06/2022 10:12, Alistair Garrison wrote:
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> > With this in mind, I wonder if the W3C might consider at some point the creation of a style-guide for standard icons for standard functions supporting standard user intents - possibly under Tutorials. Actually saying in this style-guide what each standard icon should include e.g. that a search icon should contain a visually recognisable magnifying glass symbol; or a print icon should contain a visually recognisable printer symbol.
> > 
> > This suggestion is made with the best possible intention of trying to unlock the true potential of 3.2.4 for users - so that they can rely on consistent identification of at least some icons from website to website; rather than simply from web page to web page within the same website.
> 
> Just to clarify though, this would have to be an informative guide, not 
> something normative. I don't think WAI should be in the business of 
> deciding/policing which icons are "right" and which ones aren't, as it's 
> not some kind of design body/authority, and as with most visual aspects, 
> things can get extremely subjective and context-specific very fast.
> 
> P
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