[Patternfly] Font icons and accessibility

[Liz Clayton]

Looks like good stuff. I'm including Sj, I think she's drafting the first cut of the accessibility content.

Thanks
-Liz

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Emily Dirsh" <edirsh at redhat.com>
> To: patternfly at redhat.com
> Cc: "Robb Hamilton" <rhamilto at redhat.com>, "Liz Clayton" <lclayton at redhat.com>, "Matt Carrano" <mcarrano at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 10:21:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [Patternfly] Font icons and accessibility
> 
> 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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