diff --git a/shared/oae/css/oae.components.css b/shared/oae/css/oae.components.css
index 2e0ed503b01..e2cbb60a471 100644
--- a/shared/oae/css/oae.components.css
+++ b/shared/oae/css/oae.components.css
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ a.oae-plain-link:hover {
 .oae-aural-text {
     border: 0;
     clip: rect(0 0 0 0);
+    font-family: sans-serif;  /* avoid web fonts */
     height: 1px;
     margin: -1px;
     overflow: hidden;
diff --git a/shared/oae/css/oae.core.css b/shared/oae/css/oae.core.css
index 4f924a9f35f..9fd96cc2bad 100644
--- a/shared/oae/css/oae.core.css
+++ b/shared/oae/css/oae.core.css
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 /* Import the Font Awesome Icon Set */
 @import url('../../vendor/css/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.css');
 /* Import the Open Sans font */
-@import url('../../vendor/css/opensans/css/opensans.css');
+@import url('//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:300italic,400italic,600italic,700italic,400,300,600,700&subset=latin,cyrillic-ext,latin-ext,greek-ext');
 
 /* Import the JQuery AutoSuggest plugin CSS */
 @import url('../../vendor/css/jquery.autoSuggest.css');
diff --git a/shared/vendor/css/opensans/css/opensans.css b/shared/vendor/css/opensans/css/opensans.css
deleted file mode 100644
index 7144a05d725..00000000000
--- a/shared/vendor/css/opensans/css/opensans.css
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-@font-face {
-  font-family: 'Open Sans';
-  font-style: normal;
-  font-weight: 300;
-  src: local('Open Sans Light'), local('OpenSans-Light'), url(/shared/vendor/css/opensans/font/opensans-light-webfont.woff) format('woff');
-}
-@font-face {
-  font-family: 'Open Sans';
-  font-style: normal;
-  font-weight: 400;
-  src: local('Open Sans'), local('OpenSans'), url(/shared/vendor/css/opensans/font/opensans-regular-webfont.woff) format('woff');
-}
-@font-face {
-  font-family: 'Open Sans';
-  font-style: normal;
-  font-weight: 600;
-  src: local('Open Sans Semibold'), local('OpenSans-Semibold'), url(/shared/vendor/css/opensans/font/opensans-semibold-webfont.woff) format('woff');
-}
-@font-face {
-  font-family: 'Open Sans';
-  font-style: normal;
-  font-weight: 700;
-  src: local('Open Sans Bold'), local('OpenSans-Bold'), url(/shared/vendor/css/opensans/font/opensans-bold-webfont.woff) format('woff');
-}
-@font-face {
-  font-family: 'Open Sans';
-  font-style: normal;
-  font-weight: 800;
-  src: local('Open Sans Extrabold'), local('OpenSans-Extrabold'), url(/shared/vendor/css/opensans/font/opensans-extrabold-webfont.woff) format('woff');
-}
-@font-face {
-  font-family: 'Open Sans';
-  font-style: italic;
-  font-weight: 300;
-  src: local('Open Sans Light Italic'), local('OpenSans-LightItalic'), url(/shared/vendor/css/opensans/font/opensans-lightitalic-webfont.woff) format('woff');
-}
-@font-face {
-  font-family: 'Open Sans';
-  font-style: italic;
-  font-weight: 400;
-  src: local('Open Sans Italic'), local('OpenSans-Italic'), url(/shared/vendor/css/opensans/font/opensans-italic-webfont.woff) format('woff');
-}
-@font-face {
-  font-family: 'Open Sans';
-  font-style: italic;
-  font-weight: 600;
-  src: local('Open Sans Semibold Italic'), local('OpenSans-SemiboldItalic'), url(/shared/vendor/css/opensans/font/opensans-semibolditalic-webfont.woff) format('woff');
-}
-@font-face {
-  font-family: 'Open Sans';
-  font-style: italic;
-  font-weight: 700;
-  src: local('Open Sans Bold Italic'), local('OpenSans-BoldItalic'), url(/shared/vendor/css/opensans/font/opensans-bolditalic-webfont.woff) format('woff');
-}
-@font-face {
-  font-family: 'Open Sans';
-  font-style: italic;
-  font-weight: 800;
-  src: local('Open Sans Extrabold Italic'), local('OpenSans-ExtraboldItalic'), url(/shared/vendor/css/opensans/font/opensans-extrabolditalic-webfont.woff) format('woff');
-}
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