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[Robert Lyon <robertl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The fix gone for in the patch is to add:
   role="presentation"

to the places where a font-awesome icon is displayed

But on https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/6133 it talks about using:
   aria-hidden="true"

Seen as the role="presentation" does not seem to be working in JAWS we
should try aria-hidden="true" to see if that make a difference

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1484781

Title:
  Font Awesome icons cause screen reader weirdness

Status in Mahara:
  Confirmed
Status in Mahara 15.10 series:
  Confirmed
Status in Mahara 16.04 series:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  With the new Font Awesome icons in Mahara 15.10, the JAWS screen
  reader reads each icon as "Unknown character". This also messes up
  link order when using JAWS' "List links" feature.

  Since the icons use the :before CSS pseudo-element, I suspect this is
  unfixable (and a problem with JAWS), but it's worth looking into
  whether there is a solution which allows Font Awesome icons to be used
  but doesn't compromise screen reader accessibility. It's also worth
  testing with NVDA to see if the same problem exists.

  Affects latest master

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