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Apple Submits New Accessibility Emojis to Unicode Consortium
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Screw the haters in these comments. This is a very cool thing to do.
Why? What is the practical use of these emojis? As others have said emojis are intended to represent...emotions. How do these do this?
Why do emojis have to look like they are simpsons characters with yellow skin?
I've got to agree with you ( and I'm not white ). Emojis were supposed to be abstract and simple, not a detailed depiction of all alive beings and all inanimate things.
Sounds like the new Mac Minis and Mac Pro are done. I assume those come first. Oh, wait, Apple's precious billions have to be prioritized!
It helps people unfortunate enough to be in these situations communicate and relate to others, especially if they are nonverbal or speaking a different language. What’s the problem with that? It’s not hard for one to imagine using this to tell someone at a foreign hotel that they need accommodation for a full mobile wheelchair or that they cannot hear. But hey, as long as someday someone gets a stupid dark mode I guess the disabled can wait.
What about "I need wheelchair accessible accommodations"? Or "I cannot hear"? You know using...words.
Wow, 2018 has been great year so far. A deaf HomePod, new watch bands and now emoji’s again. Tim Cook is firing on all cilinders
the spelling app is next
I could use it because English isn’t my native language. So pardon me for spelling errors and bring on the app
While likely true, the same could be said in the reverse. Do people with accessibility needs WANT to point out how they are different? FWIW, I've of the opinion that technology should emphasize just how alike we are... not point out all the minor differences. And yes.. I believe skin color, physical characteristics, etc., are MINOR differences. It's our thoughts, beliefs and actions that make us different.
What exactly is a blind person going to hear/see/whatever when the woman with the white cane emoji comes up? Where's the man with a white cane?
The emoji that have skin colour option were never yellow to begin with. They were all white. Yellow was added later along with the skin tones. Note that the way Unicode is structured a new colour for all of the characters is just one more glyph.
In every conversation about the emoji there is always at least one person who thinks (or wants to appear like they think) that Apple is just one person doing everything. There is little chance that those responsible for this proposal could even remotely help with the features you are mentioning. Sigh...
Please give us more diverse animal emojis. I have a black cat and there are no multi-colored options for the cat emojis...
I agree, people aren't different. But when I want to give a funny or sarcastic response in text I'm not going to respond with a yellow or white skin blonde hair emoji. I use the emoji that represents my skin color. My friends respond it's even funnier because they can picture me making the expression.
I'm well aware of the way skin tone is encoded in Unicode using Fitzpatrick modifiers. The point remains that, back when Emoji were smiley faces, they were largely non-representational (showing merely "a" face, just enough to convey emotional cues, rather than specifically showing a white face / black face / etc.), and it would have been simpler to have kept them that way, rather than going down the path of trying to make tiny portraits to closely represent real people.
There are so many emojis it became tedious just browsing to find the one you want.
