[Patternfly] Accessibility of PatternFly Icons

[Leslie Hinson]

Hey Jonathan,

You bring up a good point. This concern is not only related to just the
icons but across components too. Older versions and the current version of
PatternFly has addressed accessibility in a limited way. For example, we
have addressed contrast ratios [1] however have not used aria tags. We
recognize the importance of accessibility though and this has been a topic
for the PatternFly roadmap moving forward. Look for more to come on this
topic. We will be releasing a blog shortly on the topic of future
PatternFly releases.

Best,
Leslie


[1] http://www.patternfly.org/styles/color-palette/#_



On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Jonathan Yu <jawnsy at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hey experts,
>
> In many of our examples [0], we use PatternFly icons with the simple form:
>
> <span class="pficon pficon-close"></span>
>
> Reading the Bootstrap documentation[1] today, I noticed that it suggests
> using aria-hidden="true" to prevent screen readers from trying to speak
> out the Unicode.  Should we update our examples to do the same?  Or do the
> PatternFly icons achieve accessibility in some other way?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jonathan
>
> [0] http://www.patternfly.org/pattern-library/communication/
> inline-notifications/#/api
> [1] http://getbootstrap.com/components/#glyphicons-how-to-use
>
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