@leaverou @font.awesome The general trend in web dev has been to move to SVG-based icons, which are supported universally. FontAwesome has SVG support now, but many sites still use the font version, including parts of the FontAwesome website itself (screenshot).

Ideally, users would be nudged away from using the font version. From skimming your blog post, it seems you might be in a role that could push for adoption of accessible icons?