My pet theory about the specific circumstances that cause an issue are that any icons that are within an 'a' (link) tag have this problem, but there must be more to it as there are more icons within links on the Dashboard than Julius mentions.
We could add aria=hidden to all of these elements but I think there is a bit of maintenance burden there as we'd have to make sure to keep that consistent going forwards. Julius, do you have a feeling about the relative severity of this issue? The fact that it messed up the link list ability is definitely not good. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mahara Contributors, which is subscribed to Mahara. Matching subscriptions: Subscription for all Mahara Contributors -- please ask on #mahara-dev or mahara.org forum before editing or unsubscribing it! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1484781 Title: Font Awesome icons cause screen reader weirdness Status in Mahara: New Bug description: With the new Font Awesome icons in Mahara 15.10, the JAWS screen reader reads each icon as "Unknown character". This also messes up link order when using JAWS' "List links" feature. Since the icons use the :before CSS pseudo-element, I suspect this is unfixable (and a problem with JAWS), but it's worth looking into whether there is a solution which allows Font Awesome icons to be used but doesn't compromise screen reader accessibility. It's also worth testing with NVDA to see if the same problem exists. Affects latest master To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1484781/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
