Use of « and » is not accurate

[johnjamesjacoby]

Those cute double arrows that have become the trend for signifying forward or backward progress are actually quotation marks, and screen readers will pick them up as such. I would recommend stripping them completely from the core of WordPress and allow users to continue to be able to change those texts if they choose, rather than being forced to remove something that isn't right from the start.

[DD32]

Moving to 2.8 for later consideration

[johnjamesjacoby]

Replying to DD32:

Moving to 2.8 for later consideration

Maybe use ← and → instead? Just a thought, and thank you for the consideration. :)

[toscho]

See also: ​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9150

[iammattthomas]

I agree; ← and → seem like the most semantically correct (and visually helpful) glyphs. I do think though in some places, like buttons, they should be removed altogether.

[ryan]

There are also Unicode shapes, which supposedly aren't read by screen readers.

​http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_Geometric_Shapes

Could get into charset issues with those though.

[ryan]

raquo is gone from buttons. laquo and raquo are mainly used for pagination and title breadcrumbs.

[iammattthomas]

That's true; I was thinking of Akismet and wpcom stats that still have the vestigal »s

[matt]

Not a big deal. Yahoo also messes them up in search results -- the world hasn't ended.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

amen