On 13-11-15 05:04 AM, Jared Zimmerman wrote:
The screenreader case seems like even more reason to have it be a image/button with descriptive alt text rather than relying on what a particular piece of screen reader software said an extended character should represent, since we're using it for something different.
This aspect is already solved, as I pointed out yesterday in http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/design/2013-November/001159.html screenreaders now say "Jump up" no matter what the character is.
There's no problem with the unicode arrow, except that it isn't reliably/consistently styled cross-browser/platform. I was really hoping you'd suggest a simple CSS fix.