On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:

> The characters themselves are in the Unicode private use range and
> shouldn't be read out; but of course any use of them should be associated
> with a localized, readable title -- if there's not text alongside the icon
> already, there should be a title attribute or other appropriate marker.
>
> We've been fixing this recently in the new iOS app where we found that we
> had to fix both the readable strings and the accessibility roles on some of
> our widgets.
>
> -- brion
>

Would it cause issues on screen-readers if instead of Unicode private use
range, the existing unicode code points were used?

--Martijn

>
>
> On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Something that came up yesterday when I was discussing with User:Rexx
>> about the new WikiFont, is how it will influence accessibility, since it is
>> actually a 'character' that will have effects on screenreader software. I
>> have no idea what the effect will be, so if we start using that, I very
>> much encourage that we should go and find out and then document some of the
>> knowledge we gather into it's style and usage recommendations guidelines.
>>
>> DJ
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