#29808: Post/paging navigation template tags
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Reporter: obenland | Owner: johnbillion
Type: enhancement | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone: 4.1
Component: Themes | Version: trunk
Severity: normal | Resolution: fixed
Keywords: twenty-fifteen has-patch commit | Focuses: template
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Comment (by GaryJ):
Replying to [comment:4 Frank Klein]:
> I would recommend that we remove the HTML and the hardcoded arrows from
the code. If theme developers want arrows, they could use an icon font and
CSS.
I'd agree with this, since adding RTL support still means jumping through
hoops and supplying alternative strings for the default args, if you want
the arrows (which are only visual indicators of a perceptual direction
anyway) reversed for RTL.
How are the arrows read out in text-to-speech UAs, in terms of
accessibility? Does it add anything that isn't already made clear from the
words "previous" and "next"? If not, then that's another reason that the
arrows should just be added via CSS, to match the theme styles, and not be
part of the textual output.
`get_the_pagination()` doesn't have a `meta-nav` span around the arrows
either, so it's inconsistent with the other functions, and doesn't provide
a way to visually hide the arrows.
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