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How does this plugin improve accessibility ? #145

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arobase-che opened this issue Jan 16, 2024 · 2 comments
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How does this plugin improve accessibility ? #145

arobase-che opened this issue Jan 16, 2024 · 2 comments

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@arobase-che
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arobase-che commented Jan 16, 2024

Hello,

I would like to know how does that plugin is adding anything to the UX of users using assistive technologies?

I always believed that aria-label should be used on icons (or icon-like images as small SVG). But emojis are not just plain images and should already have a description based on the Unicode description and CLDR name (which are in english but should be translated to user language I guess).

I'm don't understand so why this plugin is necessary.

I'm pretty sure, there is a good explanation of why this plugin is necessary and maybe this explanation should be in the README.md of the project for people like me who don't have a good enough accessibility background.

Thank you!

@florianeckerstorfer
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Hello and thank you for the question. I don't know if anything has changed in this since I created this plugin 2020, but not every screenreader supports emoji. At least some ignore emoji correctly if they are not manually marked up as images.

I appreciate the hint that this should be much clearer in the README. Using such an automatic fallback for description should be a last resort, since the unicode description is not always the best description. Consider that an eggplant does not always mean eggplant.

@arobase-che
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Thank you very much for the explanation. :)

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