On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 1:59 PM, May Tee-Galloway <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Just to make sure this q is covered:
>
> A "speech bubble" icon can have a few (but very similar) representations
> to *screen readers*. For example:
>
> A "speech bubble" icon next to talk page label means "talk page."
> A "speech bubble" icon next to a new talkpage notification means "new
> message."
>
> Is there a way this is allowed?
>

Sure.

If you're using WikiFont for the icon then it isn't "read" by screen
readers, because it's in the Unicode private use range (and/or because
someone adds aria-hidden=true). In your first example the talk page label
may be clear enough; in the second if the nearby text isn't clear you would
add title="new message on talk page" somewhere in the HTML, and possibly
dive into http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/ if you knew what you were doing :)

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