> On 16 Dec 2014, at 18:37, Tim Chase <django.us...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > >> As you can imagine, there will be bugs, so please bear with us and >> report issues to the issue tracker at >> https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/issues > > I appreciate the clarification/distinction between Django-Users and > Django-Developers mailing-lists. I don't remember them being this > blatant before. > > I did notice that, if remote-font-loading is disabled, certain icons > don't come out intelligently. To demonstrate what would happen if > the font-file was unavailable, you can use Firefox, go to about:config > and set "browser.display.use_document_fonts" to 0. > > If the icons were mapped into spots that correspond to an actual > Unicode for something similar, they'd show up even if the fonts don't > load as long as the local font supports that code-point. Examples: > > - The envelope in the mailing-list sign-up boxes appears locally as a > digital/8-segment-display "20". Unicode has an icon-designation for > an envelope: "\N{ENVELOPE}" (U+2709). > > - the "new page" icon that is used along the right side-bar could be > "\N{PAGE FACING UP}" (U+1F4C4), "\N{DOCUMENT}" (U+1F5CE), or > "\N{PAGE}" (U+1F5CF) > > - the megaphone by the "Read More" could be mapped into "\N{CHEERING > MEGAPHONE}" (U+1F4E3), "\N{BULLHORN}" (U+1F56B), or "\N{BULLHORN > WITH SOUND WAVES}" (U+1F56C). > > - The three icons on the main page (lightning bold, lock, speedometer) > at least two could use "\N{LIGHTNING MOOD}" (U+1F5F2) and > "\N{LOCK}" (U+1F512). I wasn't able to come up with something in > stock Unicode to signify scaling except possibly "\N{WORLD > MAP}" (U+1F5FA) > > - on the /start/ page, there are some plus-signs that would render if > "\N{HEAVY PLUS SIGN}" (U+2795) was used instead. (I did notice that > this page works well even if JS is disabled. Major kudos there!) > > Based on the underlying CSS, it looks like there might be a lot more > than just the ones I discovered in the first 5min of reading. I tend > to discover these font issues since I generally fly with the above FF > setting configured because some sites choose fonts that are hard for > me to read. Disabling remote fonts solves that for me (FF doesn't > offer a more granular permission for font-loading, AFAIK). > > They're not a major concern, but a nice-to-have. I can paste this > into a Github issue if you want to track it there.
Yes, that would be really appreciated. Part of our upcoming work is to improve accessibility issues like this. A ticket on the GitHub issue tracker (https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/issues) would be a great start to collect those infos. Thanks! Jannis > Links to the Unicode icons if you want examples: > http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2709/index.htm > http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2795/index.htm > http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1F4C4/index.htm > http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1F4E3/index.htm > http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1F512/index.htm > http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1F56B/index.htm > http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1F56C/index.htm > http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1F5CE/index.htm > http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1F5CF/index.htm > http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1F5F2/index.htm > http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1F5FA/index.htm > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/20141216113755.3485d179%40bigbox.christie.dr. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/C96FD24D-87A2-467C-883E-1FA9080E25AD%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
