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  1. “Death To Icon Fonts” (2015)

    youtube.com/watch?v=9xXBYcWgCH

    What's your opinion as a #WebDev today?

    Did you find a way to address the issues presented while keeping #IconFonts?

    Basically:
    1. When our friends with #Dyslexia overrides your fonts, font icons turn into black boxes since the font they're using doesn't have support for those Unicode code blocks.

    2. When screenreaders, or voice assistance, reads a site with icon fonts, they read the icon fonts really weird.

    For No.2, a site with properly marked aria labels, or marked as hidden for assistive tech, is the solution I can think of.

    However, for No.1, I can't think of a way since once the browser forces the user font, all fonts on the site will rely on the user's custom font.

    The only other way I can think of is to provide an option to switch the site's font right from the website, so they don't have to override the site's font.

    What's your solution?

    #WebDeveloper #WebDevelopers #Coder #Programmer #Webmaster #A11Y #accessibility #assistive #Fonts