Re: How do assistive technologies handle icon fonts? from Michiel Bijl on 2015-12-01 (w3c-wai-ig@w3.org from October to December 2015)

From: Michiel Bijl <michiel@agosto.nl>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 06:24:40 +0100
To: Web Accessibility Initiative Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Cc: stevebeck1975@gmail.com, deborah.kaplan@suberic.net, mtchllvn@gmail.com, redux@splintered.co.uk, "Elizabeth J. Pyatt" <ejp10@psu.edu>, Ja Eun Ku <jku@illinois.edu>
Message-Id: <842CFE5C-D5F9-4D92-B8E9-49E74EAF7A71@agosto.nl>

Thank you all for the great advice and resources, will read and add to project!

I agree that the first advice should be to avoid icon fonts and use SVG where possible. Sill, a lot of companies/websites do use icon fonts, so knowing how to make them accessible seems like a worthy endeavour.

—Michiel

Received on Tuesday, 1 December 2015 05:26:30 UTC