Is it time to revisit font icons

[Joseph Scheuhammer]

Hi Justin,

I'm not sure if I understand the issue completely, but it made me think 
of the new aria graphics roles, specifically, the "graphic-symbol" 
role.  That is used where a small "icon" symbolizes something else; an 
example would be the symbol for a lightbulb in a circuit diagram.  
Here's the current proposed spec:
http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/aria/graphics.html#graphics-symbol

I don't think this is exactly the same idea as that for font icons, but 
it's close.  There are other roles in that document for other kinds of 
graphics.  And, for ARIA 2.0, there are even more, see:
http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/aria/graphics2.html#role_definitions

Take all with a grain of salt in the sense that these are still in the 
proposal stage and will take time for browser/AT uptake.

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;;;;joseph.

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