[Patternfly] Font icons and accessibility

[Emily Dirsh]

This was featured on the A List Apart blog this morning, it's got a lot of good information and actual test data about the accessibility of font idons and a handy library for various fallback techniques:

http://filamentgroup.com/lab/bulletproof_icon_fonts/ 

(The filament group actually recommends using SVGs _instead of_ icon fonts which is also an interesting read: http://filamentgroup.com/lab/grumpicon_workflow/)

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matt Carrano" <mcarrano at redhat.com>
> To: "Robb Hamilton" <rhamilto at redhat.com>
> Cc: patternfly at redhat.com
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 3:17:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [Patternfly] Font icons and accessibility
> 
> OK, great!  Thanks, Robb.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robb Hamilton" <rhamilto at redhat.com>
> To: patternfly at redhat.com, "Matt Carrano" <mcarrano at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 2:57:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [Patternfly] Font icons and accessibility
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
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