I am using Font Awesome 3.2. Font Awesome just released version 4.0. Prior to the 4.0 release I would view Font Awesome's documentation at http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/. The new version has differing icon names and makes it difficult to work between the old and new documentation.
Are the 3.2 docs still available? Can I download 3.2 docs?
Font Awesome auto-accessibility feature will make sure it is ignored by assistive technology. There's nothing extra you need to on top of how you would usually reference an icon. The Font Awesome auto-accessibility feature will create alternative text for the icon using the description you set with the title attribute.
Make sure you're using the latest and greatest by updating your CDN code reference, updating your Font Awesome package via npm, or downloading a fresh copy of Font Awesome. You can check with version an icon was added to on its detail page (e.g. question-circle was added in Verion 1 but last updated in 5.0.
Font Awesome is fully open source and is GPL friendly. You can use it for commercial projects, open source projects, or really just about whatever you want. Attribution is no longer required as of Font Awesome 3.0 but is much appreciated: "Font Awesome by Dave Gandy - http://fontawesome.io".
Font Awesome 5 Version 5, our major fifth release, added thousands of new icons in 4 unique styles - solid, regular, light, and duotone. Our software was souped up with ligature-based desktop font files, SVG support, official JS components, and more.
The documentation for 3.2.1 has been archived at:
There's an article for upgrading from 3.1.2 to 4 on the Github wiki for the Font Awesome project:
You can also download earlier releases from the project's Releases page. The 3.2.1 release does include docs, but they must be compiled to be useful.
Generally speaking, you can always check the Wayback Machine as a last resort, which has cached versions of some of the docs from previous releases based on date:
I just wrote a set of SED regexp to convert class name of font-awesome 4.0.0 to font-awesome.3.2.1 equivalent.
Look at this : https://gist.github.com/guli/7154067
To use it :
sed -f sed_rules.sed < font-awesome.css > font-awesome.css.fixed
Feel free to comment or fix the gist :)
I've written a simple Python tool to migrate HTML from font awesome 3.2 to 4.0. It may be of use to you.
You can grab it here: https://github.com/robert-b-clarke/font-awesome-3-to-4
Tested migrating a batch of Django templates from font awesome v3.2.1 to v4.0.3. Patches, fixes and tweaks are of course welcome :)
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