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The typographic pictograms are provided with an appropriate alternative.

Le recours aux web fonts (polices de caractères téléchargeables) a considérablement facilité le recours à une astuce technique très appréciée du point de vue des performances : remplacer les images de diverses icônes par un caractère UTF-8 graphique obtenu grâce à une police spécifique. However, this involves significant risks, including accessibility risks, if you do not make sure that a textual alternative is created to this character that was stunned from its meaning by default.

Objectives

  • Improve accessibility of content to readers with disabilities.

Implementation

  • Test the text with the relevant character(s) with the sound rendering of the playback software.
  • If the software does not recognize the character, then content will be hidden from display via CSS.

Control

  • Directly review the code to verify that each icon displayed via a font is provided with an alternative in HTML content.

Validation

  • Reported by Ace by DAISY.
  • Needs to be verified by a human.

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