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From: Mallory
Date: Jun 10, 2017 10:18AM

This is interesting: if the background colour is changed, and the text
colour isn't, than isn't all the text invisible now? In other words, I
thought one of the advantages of icon fonts was they inherited
everything to do with text colour (so whatever the text colour does, the
icon font should as well (unless some CSS overrides).

Am I misunderstanding?

cheers,

On Wed, May 24, 2017, at 08:36 PM, Jim Allan wrote:
> Also,
> For low vision folks, make sure that you set a background color on your
> icon fonts. You don't want them vanishing if a user changes the
> background
> color of the page to the same color as your icon font.
>
> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Jim Allan < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > Icon fonts are a concern of the Low Vision Task Force. One of our members
> > created a test page of various methods of creating and labelling icon
> > fonts. Perhaps you will find it helpful
> > https://alastairc.ac/tests/css-icons/