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Re: Font Awesome Icon Accessibility Help

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Aug 1, 2017 7:38AM

On 01/08/2017 13:56, Jim Homme wrote:
> Hi,
> I am learning to work with Font Awesom icons as part of web development training. I want to learn to make them accessible now so I won't have to re-learn them correctly. Hope this makes sense. Can anyone please point me to information aboutmaking these accessible?


While not perfect, the information on
http://fontawesome.io/accessibility/ might start you off in the right
direction. This is cribbed in part from the accessibility advice on
http://getbootstrap.com/components/#glyphicons-how-to-use (different
icon font system, same idea behind it though).

Of course there are gaps here - particularly when it comes to users who
may have their own font preferences set that override author-defined
fonts. Moving to SVG-based icon solutions is the more robust approach
here in most cases.

P
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