[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #40428: Introduce best practices to hide CSS generated content from assistive technologies

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#40428: Introduce best practices to hide CSS generated content from assistive
technologies
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 Reporter:  afercia         |       Owner:  trishasalas
     Type:  defect (bug)    |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Administration  |     Version:
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  a11y-task       |     Focuses:  ui, accessibility
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Comment (by Cheffheid):

 As per today's bug scrub:

 An idea to help tackle this is by creating a PHP function
 (`the_dashicon()` or something) to standardize the markup used for these
 icons and make use of `aria-hidden` as described in the ticket.

 (And maybe allow `aria-hidden` to be toggled/exchanged for `aria-label`
 for any icons that do need to be announced a certain way? Not that I'd
 want to advocate textless icons, of course)

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