Font Awesome icons cause screen reader weirdness
Bug #1484781 reported by
Jono M
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mahara |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Jen Zajac | ||
15.10 |
Fix Released
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Medium
|
Jen Zajac | ||
16.04 |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
With the new Font Awesome icons in Mahara 15.10, the JAWS screen reader reads each icon as "Unknown character". This also messes up link order when using JAWS' "List links" feature.
Since the icons use the :before CSS pseudo-element, I suspect this is unfixable (and a problem with JAWS), but it's worth looking into whether there is a solution which allows Font Awesome icons to be used but doesn't compromise screen reader accessibility. It's also worth testing with NVDA to see if the same problem exists.
Affects latest master
Changed in mahara: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Confirmed |
milestone: | none → 15.10.0 |
Changed in mahara: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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Hi Jen,
Could you please check if there is anything that can be done here?
Thanks
Kristina