Design
Icons are an important communication device that are used as short hand to indicate status, support text labels, or as the sole identifier of common functions. Not all icons are the same colour.
Icon Set
Actions
Security controls
Add
Menus
Controls
Documents
Objects
Objects Q&A roles
Status
Integrations
Icon Sizes
Icons can be displayed in a range of sizes.
The Q&A role icons are designed for larger display sizes; and should use at least xlarge
as icon size.
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Icons require a glyph class to determine which icon shows; and in most cases some accessible text to describe what has happened. By default the accessible text will be applied as a title attribute as well. |
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The text and title contents can be varied if required (although usually they should simply match). When text adjacent to the icon is supplying the contextual information required for accessibility, the icon's text can be omitted. The title attribute can be suppressed by setting showTitle to false in the template call. |
Help Link demonstrating contextual information (ie. allowing the icon to have no text):
Different text and title:
Suppressing the title:
Different text and title:
Suppressing the title:
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Icons can be set to a range of sizes. Options: small, medium, large, xlarge, xxlarge. |
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Q&A roles should be set to xlarge. |
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Mapping file extensions to icons
There are more file extensions out there than ACE has icons. By design, file type icons are grouped together with three levels of granularity:
- Specific file types - eg. Word, Excel
- Broad file types - eg. images, videos, text
- No granularity: the generic document icon
When a file type is evaluated, it should go from specific; to broad if no specific match is found; to generic if no broad match is found.
Full icon set
Actions
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Security controls
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Objects Q&A roles
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Status
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Integrations
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