On Wednesday, August 13, 2014, Derk-Jan Hartman <
d.j.hartman+wmf_ml(a)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(a)gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)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(a)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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