> and shouldn't be read out; Note the usage of shouldn't. Screen readers, browser and operating systems are notoriously bad at consistently and accurately implementing some of this stuff..
> "Would it cause issues on screen-readers if instead of Unicode private use > range, the existing unicode code points were used?" Yes, that would be very bad, especially if they overlap with a-z. DJ On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Martijn Hoekstra <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Design mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Design mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design > _______________________________________________ Design mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design
