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itch.io Community » itch.io » Questions & Support · Created a new topic Remove the icon fonts from the site for accessibility
There are numerous reasons not to use icon fonts in place of images, but the main ones relate to accessibility:
-They confuse screen readers. Often read in strange ways or simply as 'unpronouncable'
-They don't include metadata or image alt text for screen readers
-They don't play nice with style-sheet changer like dyslexic font plugins (see below)
Here is a more detailed article on the issue by Michael Irigoyen:
https://www.irigoyen.dev/blog/2021/02/17/stop-using-icon-fonts/
