> and shouldn't be read out;

Note the usage of shouldn't. Screen readers, browser and operating
systems are notoriously bad at consistently and accurately
implementing some of this stuff..


> "Would it cause issues on screen-readers if instead of Unicode private use range, the existing unicode code points were used?"

Yes, that would be very bad, especially if they overlap with a-z.

DJ

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Martijn Hoekstra
<martijnhoekstra@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Brion Vibber <bvibber@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> The characters themselves are in the Unicode private use range and
>> shouldn't be read out; but of course any use of them should be associated
>> with a localized, readable title -- if there's not text alongside the icon
>> already, there should be a title attribute or other appropriate marker.
>>
>> We've been fixing this recently in the new iOS app where we found that we
>> had to fix both the readable strings and the accessibility roles on some of
>> our widgets.
>>
>> -- brion
>
>
> Would it cause issues on screen-readers if instead of Unicode private use
> range, the existing unicode code points were used?
>
> --Martijn
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman
>> <d.j.hartman+wmf_ml@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Something that came up yesterday when I was discussing with User:Rexx
>>> about the new WikiFont, is how it will influence accessibility, since it is
>>> actually a 'character' that will have effects on screenreader software. I
>>> have no idea what the effect will be, so if we start using that, I very much
>>> encourage that we should go and find out and then document some of the
>>> knowledge we gather into it's style and usage recommendations guidelines.
>>>
>>> DJ
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