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Re: Another Color Contrast question

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From: James Nurthen
Date: Oct 3, 2014 2:07PM

I'm do not understand why the technique which you use to display an icon
would have any bearing on whether it needs to meet a specific success
criteria.

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Andrew Kirkpatrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Jon,
> That's a good question. I'm not certain, but I'm leaning toward thinking
> that they count as text.
>
> For example, this page (http://timepiece.inostudio.de/) has clocks that
> are made with custom symbol fonts. There is an underlying span that has
> numbers associated with characters in private Unicode space. So, the parts
> of the clock seem like they are a form of text... It is an uncomfortable
> fit at first blush, I'll agree, but am interested in other's thoughts.
>
> AWK
>
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