search

w3c / aria-practices

WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG)
https://www.w3.org/wai/aria/apg/
Other
1.2k stars 329 forks source link

Draft guidance about (icon) web fonts #151

Open ZoeBijl opened 7 years ago

ZoeBijl commented 7 years ago

Web fonts, and especially icon fonts, have accessibility implications. Would the APG be a good location for advise about this?

A great talk on this topic is @ninjanails’ Death to icon fonts.

mcking65 commented 7 years ago

That's a really good talk.

I do think the issue is relevant even though it is not directly ARIA. It is relevant because icon fonts are commonly used in widgets that people will create with ARIA.

One immediate way of nudging people is to use SVGs where others might use icon fonts in the examples and then point out that fact in the accessibility features. A recent opportunity is in the menubar examples where we have down pointing triangles. I don't know if those are icon fonts, but if they are, we should replace them and then point it out in the accessibility features section of the page. Check out the comments on issue #145.

There may be some other places in the guide, but nothing immediately comes to mind Ideas?

a11ydoer commented 7 years ago

@MichielBijl @mcking65

The down pointing trangle image in menubar examples is png. ;-)

ZoeBijl commented 7 years ago

Great, thanks for the feedback! I’m reading the APG as part of my ARIA in HTML review, so will see if anything comes up. Will also write this while I’m at it.

Will see if I can get @ninjanails to help out ;)