On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 1:59 PM, May Tee-Galloway <mgalloway(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Just to make sure this q is covered:
A "speech bubble" icon can have a few (but very similar) representations
to *screen readers*. For example:
A "speech bubble" icon next to talk page label means "talk page."
A "speech bubble" icon next to a new talkpage notification means "new
message."
Is there a way this is allowed?
Sure.
If you're using WikiFont for the icon then it isn't "read" by screen
readers, because it's in the Unicode private use range (and/or because
someone adds aria-hidden=true). In your first example the talk page label
may be clear enough; in the second if the nearby text isn't clear you would
add title="new message on talk page" somewhere in the HTML, and possibly
dive into
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/ if you knew what you were doing :)
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=S Page Features engineer