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Re: Font Icons and Pseudo-elements

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From: Caitlin Geier
Date: Apr 13, 2016 10:55AM

FontAwesome (one of the most popular icon font libraries) just released a
guide for using icon fonts accessibly - http://fontawesome.io/accessibility/

I find icon fonts to be quite useful - they're easy to implement and
manage, and you don't have to have a designer slaving away to create custom
images / icons to represent something. That being said, it's often better
to just use text. In the application I'm working on, we mostly use them as
decoration (aria-hidden=true).

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Lucy Greco < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> mike thats ausom
>
> Lucia Greco
> Web Accessibility Evangelist
> IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
> University of California, Berkeley
> (510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
> http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
> Follow me on twitter @accessaces
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>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Moore,Michael (Accessibility) (HHSC) <
> <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> > "Mouse grid, 7, 3, 5, 9, ... click that" </sarcasm>
> >
> > Mike Moore
> > Accessibility Coordinator
> > Texas Health and Human Services Commission
> > Civil Rights Office
> > (512) 438-3431 (Office)
> >
> >