[TYPO3-dev] Own icon files for filelinks

[JoH asenau]

> Isn't an icon which shows the file type of a linked document
> considered to be 'decoration'? It's certainly not content like an
> illustration or a graphical button which links to some place.

>From the accessible point of view it's no decoration at all. Especially
people dealing with MAC users, who are used to have filenames without
extensions will now that, because you always have to check the file content
before you know what kind of file it is unless the one who saved it gave it
an extension.

So an icon indicating "the following file is a PDF file" is important even
for non visual browsers or screenreaders.
As long as there is no non-visual replacement for the visual stuff
available, you should go for an additional tag. It doesn't have to be an img
though, since there might be other tags (i.e. dfn) that would be
semantically correct here as well.

Cheers

Joey

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