Title: Feature request: Accessibility
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Feature request: Accessibility

 *  Resolved [gofigure](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gofigure/)
 * (@gofigure)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-accessibility/)
 * Awesome plugin!!!
 * As mentioned in the title,for accessibility – can users be able to change the
   <i> tag to <span>?
 * e.g.
    <span class=”fa fa-wordpress” aria-hidden=”true” ></span>
 * Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-font-awesome/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-font-awesome/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Mickey Kay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcguive7/)
 * (@mcguive7)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-accessibility/#post-7081070)
 * Hi gofigure,
 * Happy to report that you can already achieve this using the provided filters.
   The `bfa_icon` filter, which allows you to modify the full icon output. So all
   you need to do is use the filter to search and replace:
 *     ```
       <i
       ```
   
 * with:
 *     ```
       <span aria-hidden="true"
       ```
   
 * Should be all set!
 *  Thread Starter [gofigure](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gofigure/)
 * (@gofigure)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-accessibility/#post-7081074)
 * AWESOME!
 * Thanks Mickey!
 * Something like this?
 * function filter_bfa_icon( $output ) {
    $replace = array( ‘<i’ => ‘<span’, ‘</
   i>’ => ‘</span>’ ); $new_output = str_replace(array_keys($replace), array_values(
   $replace), $output); return $new_output; };
 * add_filter( ‘bfa_icon’, ‘filter_bfa_icon’, 10, 1 );
 *  Plugin Author [Mickey Kay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcguive7/)
 * (@mcguive7)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-accessibility/#post-7081076)
 * Yep – that looks good to me!

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 * Last reply from: [Mickey Kay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcguive7/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-accessibility/#post-7081076)
 * Status: resolved