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Re: Font Icons in Safari

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Feb 19, 2016 11:46AM

> Is this a VoiceOver bug? Is there an attribute like ALT for font icons?

My guess is that aria-label would be better supported on links than the title attribute. It should be placed on the link and not on the span within the link.

Jonathan

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-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Joseph Sherman
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 11:09 AM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: [WebAIM] Font Icons in Safari

We are now using font icons for header and footer image links (like logos, twitter, facebook, etc). Since they are not images, they do not any ALT. They do have Titles. On Windows and iOS, they work fine- JAWS and NVDA read the Title and link. On Mac and Android, VoiceOver/Talkback only says "link", and does not read the Title or url so the user has no idea what the link is for.

Is this a VoiceOver bug? Is there an attribute like ALT for font icons?


Joseph