[Patternfly] Font icons and accessibility

[Robb Hamilton]

On Jan 10, 2014, at 10:53 AM, Matt Carrano <mcarrano at redhat.com> wrote:

> Just a bit of follow-up from our Wednesday discussion about accessibility.  Liz C identified this link that talks about making font based icon controls accessible by screen readers: http://icomoon.io/#docs/screenreaders
> 
> I'm thinking that perhaps we should include this link at the bottom of the Glyphs and Icons page? http://rcue-uxd.itos.redhat.com/visual-styles/icons-glyphs/  Robb, what do you think?

it may create more confusion if we do that since we’ve already generated the font using the PUA for PatternFly (which is what the bulk of that section is talking about).  in short, we’ve done what is recommended to avoid the problem with screen readers.