Re: WingDings in the navigation links

Ok I'd seen those things listed as a font but no one described them to me or why they were used.  I
accidentally set them as the default and JAWS stopped reading the screen but I didn't know why.
TNX.
----- Original Message -----
From: <jtpolk(at)texas.net>
To: "Ray T. Mahorney" <rmahorney(at)earthlink.net>
Cc: <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: WingDings in the navigation links


> Help me out,  What are wing dings and what are they used for?
> Ray T. Mahorney
> WA4WGA

Wing Dings are a font that substitute symbols for characters. For
instance, Jim is a symbol of an island with a palm tree then a circle
with an ''i'' in it finishing with a man floating in the air.

I NEVER use them in web pages since if for some reason the person does
not have installed or has removed the Wing Ding font, then the sysbols
are replaced with regular letters. Thus those three symbols side by side
would become ''Jim''.

I find such fonts useful sometimes in graphics.



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