Typographic pictograms have a suitable alternative.

The use of web fonts (downloadable character fonts) has considerably facilitated the use of a technical trick very appreciated from a performance point of view: replacing the images of various icons with a graphic UTF-8 character obtained thanks to a font specific, however, carries significant risks, particularly in terms of accessibility, if you do not take care to provide a textual alternative to this character diverted from its default meaning.

Objectives

• Improve the accessibility of content to people with disabilities.

Implementation

• Test the text containing the character(s) concerned with the sound rendering of the reading software.
• If the software does not recognize the character, then we will use content hidden on display via CSS.

Control

• Examine the code directly to verify that each icon displayed via a font has, where appropriate, an alternative in the HTML content.

Validation

• Needs to be human verified.