On Wednesday, August 13, 2014, Derk-Jan Hartman < d.j.hartman+wmf_ml@gmail.com> wrote:
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
I actually meant using the corresponding code points, like using 1f527 for a spanner icon, etc.
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Martijn Hoekstra <martijnhoekstra@gmail.com javascript:;> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Brion Vibber <bvibber@wikimedia.org
javascript:;> 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 javascript:;> 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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