The fix gone for in the patch is to add: role="presentation" to the places where a font-awesome icon is displayed
But on https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/6133 it talks about using: aria-hidden="true" Seen as the role="presentation" does not seem to be working in JAWS we should try aria-hidden="true" to see if that make a difference -- 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: Confirmed Status in Mahara 15.10 series: Confirmed Status in Mahara 16.04 series: Confirmed 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
