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# Icons

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**Good to know:** you can embed a Storybook canvas by simple pasting the canvas link and hitting enter.
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An Icon is a piece of visual element, but we must ensure its accessibility while using it. It can have **2 purposes**:

* ***decorative only***: for example, it illustrates a label next to it. We must ensure that it is ignored by screen readers, by setting aria-hidden attribute (ex: `<Icon icon="check" aria-hidden />`)
* ***non-decorative***: it means that it delivers information. For example, an icon as only child in a button. The meaning can be obvious visually, but it must have a proper text alternative via `aria-label` for screen readers. (ex:`<Icon icon="print" aria-label="Print this document" />`)

{% embed url="<https://5ccbc373887ca40020446347-geedzbiswp.chromatic.com/iframe.html?id=icon--labels&args=&viewMode=story>" %}
These examples are taken from the excellent [Storybook Example Design System](https://5ccbc373887ca40020446347-geedzbiswp.chromatic.com/?path=/story/icon--labels).
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