Main cross character is incorrect

[gibson042]

(discovered while working on ava test result accessibility: avajs/ava#3082 )

The main cross character is U+2716 HEAVY MULTIPLICATION X "✖︎", but for accessibility (and proper contrast with tick U+2714 HEAVY CHECK MARK "✔︎") it should instead be U+2718 HEAVY BALLOT X "✘︎".

[ehmicky]

Hi @gibson042,

I have tried to display U+2714 ✔, U+2716 ✖ and U+2718 ✘ on the following list of ~20 terminals with the default fonts. Apparently they all display correctly except:

• None of them displays correctly on Windows Console Host (cmd.exe, Powershell) and mintty/Git-for-Windows (which is why we have a fallback with this library).
• Only U+2718 ✘ displays correctly on the Linux kernel console (but that terminal is not officially supported)

From a style standpoint, ti seems to me that U+2718 ✘ is less bold and more slanted, so is closer to U+2714 ✔. From that angle, this makes sense to me as well.

That being said, could you please add some additional description as to what specifically makes U+2718 ✘ more accessible than U+2716 ✖, and for which type of accessibility?

Also, if you find some time, could you open a similar issue and/or PR with https://github.com/sindresorhus/log-symbols to keep those in sync? Thanks!

[gibson042]

Sure, I'm primarily concerned about proper semantics and the corresponding consequences upon vision-impaired users. For example, screen readers are notoriously bad at symbols, and for example VoiceOver reads U+2716 HEAVY MULTIPLICATION X "✖︎" as "multiplication symbol", which is appropriate for that software because the character is in fact a multiplication symbol. But that has no obvious connection to negative status such as a test failure, and the fact that they are visually similar is insufficient reason to consider them as interchangeable.

[ehmicky]

This makes sense, thanks for explaining! 👍