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Re: Another Color Contrast question

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Oct 3, 2014 2:35PM

> Most icon fonts I've seen show symbols but do not consist of text according to above definition. The character itself does not express anything in human language and/or cannot be programmatically determined, only it's visual shape conveys information so it's non-text content. Try changing the font or reading it with a screen reader, often you get either nothing or some completely different character or symbol. I've seen icon fonts that come across as random characters or punctuation marks when rendered with the wrong font, these clearly do not express anything in human language.

Exactly, and for that matter an X used to represent "close" while human readable doesn't by itself represent a meaningful sequence of characters because an X could represent multiplication or something else. In the case of "close" it is used as a symbol rather than text.

Jonathan