The icons can be made "invisible" to screen readers by including the icon in a c...

juriga on Jan 31, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Font-Embedding Icons the Right Way—A Legitimate Al...

The icons can be made "invisible" to screen readers by including the icon in a custom data attribute (e.g. [data-icon]) and using the right unicode character.

The creator of IcoMoon (http://keyamoon.com/icomoon/) has made a nice demo video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWq7idrW2yU