Screenreader gives vague information for prev, next buttons

[jonels-msft]

Problem

Although the buttons have informational tooltip text, that text is not announced by the screenreader. Instead it says, "link n, alt plus n" and "link p, alt plus p."

Reproducible Project

https://docs.citusdata.com/en/v9.3/develop/migration.html

Error Logs/Results

Here is a video demonstrating the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tylvGPHwF4

Expected Results

In scan mode the screenreader should announce e.g. the previous link as something like, "Previous link choose distribution column press alt + p to access the control."

Environment Info

• Python Version: 3.7.7
• Sphinx Version: 1.4.9
• RTD Theme Version: 0.2.4

[Daltz333]

I'm not sure a bug report is valid for such an old version.

Sphinx is already on major version 3
and RTD Theme is already on 0.5.0

[stsewd]

Looks like the issue is still valid, the problem is that icon is getting interpreted as text

sphinx_rtd_theme/sphinx_rtd_theme/breadcrumbs.html

Lines 74 to 81 in 006cd21

	<div class="rst-breadcrumbs-buttons" role="navigation" aria-label="breadcrumb navigation">
	{% if next %}
	<a href="{{ next.link|e }}" class="btn btn-neutral float-right" title="{{ next.title|striptags|e }}" accesskey="n">{{ _('Next') }} <span class="fa fa-arrow-circle-right"></span></a>
	{% endif %}
	{% if prev %}
	<a href="{{ prev.link|e }}" class="btn btn-neutral float-left" title="{{ prev.title|striptags|e }}" accesskey="p"><span class="fa fa-arrow-circle-left"></span> {{ _('Previous') }}</a>
	{% endif %}
	</div>

<span class="fa fa-arrow-circle-left"></span>