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title: HTML for Icon Font Usage
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linkurl: http://css-tricks.com/html-for-icon-font-usage/
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author: Matthias Kretschmann
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date: 2012-05-26 05:13:58+00:00
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tags:
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- design
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Chris Coyier on an accessible implementation for icon fonts:
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> Where are we at right now in terms of the best markup for using icon fonts? Let's cover some options I think are currently the best. [...]
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And our major goals here are:
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> 1. As good of semantics as we can get
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> 2. As little awkwardness for screen readers as possible
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Spoiler: the key is to map the icons to the _Private Use Area_ instead of "real" characters in the font files and injecting them with pseudo elements.
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I'm using [Font Awesome](http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/) on this site which comes with icons mapped to PUA, so everything should be good for screen readers. Only concern to me are the quite ineffective CSS selectors like `[class*=" icon-"]` but this makes it nicely flexible.
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