{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Financial-Times/o-ft-icons/issues/75","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Financial-Times/o-ft-icons/issues/75/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Financial-Times/o-ft-icons/issues/75/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Financial-Times/o-ft-icons/issues/75/events","html_url":"https://github.com/Financial-Times/o-ft-icons/issues/75","id":96611731,"number":75,"title":"Use ligatures for accessible font","user":{"login":"pornel","id":72159,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/72159?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/pornel","html_url":"https://github.com/pornel","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pornel/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pornel/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pornel/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pornel/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pornel/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pornel/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pornel/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pornel/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pornel/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":9,"created_at":"2015-07-22T16:38:32Z","updated_at":"2015-12-14T12:17:08Z","closed_at":"2015-12-14T12:17:08Z","body":"Alternative to #54\r\n\r\nInstead of using arbitrary characters for the icons it's possible to use ligatures to replace words with symbols (e.g. every occurence of letters \"Back\" could be automagically displayed as \"<\").\r\n\r\nHere's an example implementation: https://symbolset.com/\r\n\r\nThis way a text alternative for the icons would always be in the markup, with no CSS hacks needed, and it would also help users who can see, but their browser didn't download the icon font.\r\n\r\n![not that](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/72159/8831125/32227b80-3098-11e5-816f-d4275decfdff.png)\r\n"}}