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Apple Submits New Accessibility Emojis to Unicode Consortium
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As I mentioned clearly, the person may be nonverbal or speaking a different language. What’s the point of words if you can’t use and understand (or apparently, read) them?
I need a RIGHT ear with hearing aid for a COFFEE WITH CREAM skin toned person, please. And can you put a GOLD HOOP on it? Thanks, Apple.
We also need an old person who doesn’t understand technology emoji, as well as a family that is Amish after 5 minutes of no wifi.
These are kinda cool, but I'd rather everything be reverted to the older set they had around 2014. Now there are too many emojis for them to be iconic. Kinda like Pokémon now that there are a grillion generations.
The "recently used" section usually has what I want - unless my niece has borrowed my phone to send a message to her parents, which always includes dozens of random emoji (along with well-formed English sentences, mind you - she just uses emoji to decorate), blowing the "recent" cache out of the water, and I end up with mountains, and random flags she liked because they're pretty.
I say this every time, and people like you just don’t get it:
The people who draw emoji for Apple aren’t going to be implementing a dark mode or increasing the icons in the dock or putting the battery percentage on the status bar on the X or working on Siri. That’s not their job.
Understood but what Apple prioritizes as a feature that gets integrated or not integrated to iOS, is apple’s job. It’s at their discretion.
Someone has control over this decision and It’s a rather silly one (imo) over everything else left on the table. 11.1 got new emojis and sure they’re cool too but I would prefer real tangible bug fixes if they aren’t really gonna do anything else or ideally tangible bug fixes and tangible new features not just a few emojis
In the minds of some posters here, Apple apparently only has a single team working on anything at all, and as soon as news breaks of a new different topic, that team has to switch gears.
(In reality, there's thousands of engineers working in hundreds of different teams, and the skillset to improve Siri is completely different from that to add emoji. So it's a completely moot discussion.)
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Adding emoji is neither going to delay a Dark Mode (assuming this is a feature Apple is even planning, for which there is little evidence) nor going to have much of a negative effect on quality.
They need a better solution for navigating emojis. The "insert" feature was a step in the right direction, but had its issues (the clock emoji for specific times could barely be read).
I'd like to see customizable emoji keyboards where we can remove emojis we don't need.
EDIT: Also, bravo to Apple for creating the above emojis and submitting them.
You say you understand, but your post says otherwise. They’re not prioritizing emoji over features. There are people who are doing their job, which is to design emoji. These don’t take as much time as, say, a system wide dark mode. Then we have the idea that 11.1 was just emoji, when it definitely wasn’t. They just adervtised emoji because, and they have the numbers to back it up, people update faster when there are new emoji.
System wide dark mode is kinda there with inverted mode
It’s been there for 4 years for jailbreak users
It’s lack of priorities
I wish Apple would remove the focus on "representing" and actually focus on DOING THINGS that actually represent INCLUSION. I know of a visually impaired person who was using Mac for many years, until the newer OS changed some of the traditional visual scroll bars and other standard features... then she had a real hard time finding her way around the Mac. I know that there are ways to overcome these changes, but she could not do the things she used to. Voice over was terrible. She ended up giving up on using a Mac.
Did you take a look at the $20.1B in profit and $88.3N in revenue in Q12018? All records and up 13% y/y.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
Hell of a lot more than HomePod, bands, and emojis. You’re just not paying attention.
The only cylinder not firing in Q12018 was that HomePod wasn’t in it and iPhone X only sold < 2 months, yet Apple still posted records.
Could this be a new low for these forums?
Just a small nitpick, but most non-seeing eye service dog vests (the one in the lower middle) have the attach point for them on the vest, not a leash around the neck.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/...fort-to-standardize-the-worlds-alphabets.html
commenting on this older article is this languagelog article
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=35136
which mentions
Yet surely Chinese characters Hànzì / Kanji / Hanja are the elephant in the system, the gorilla in the works. According to the Wikipedia article on Unicode, "The latest version [of Unicode] contains a repertoire of 136,755 characters covering 139 modern and historic scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets." Of these, according to the Wikipedia article on CJK Unified Ideographs (Hànzì / Kanji / Hanja are not "ideographs", so that term needs to be changed), the number of CJK characters, including "Extension F", is currently 87,882, or 64% of the total characters, letters, and symbols in Unicode. This means that one script, Chinese, accounts for nearly two thirds of all the characters, letters, and symbols in Unicode. Is that a cost effective use of bandwidth? Does that slow the system down? Especially considering that over half of the CJK characters are almost never used (we know neither the sound nor the meaning of many of them), so they are really just taking up space.
commenting on this older article is this languagelog article
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=35136
which mentions
Yet surely Chinese characters Hànzì / Kanji / Hanja are the elephant in the system, the gorilla in the works. According to the Wikipedia article on Unicode, "The latest version [of Unicode] contains a repertoire of 136,755 characters covering 139 modern and historic scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets." Of these, according to the Wikipedia article on CJK Unified Ideographs (Hànzì / Kanji / Hanja are not "ideographs", so that term needs to be changed), the number of CJK characters, including "Extension F", is currently 87,882, or 64% of the total characters, letters, and symbols in Unicode. This means that one script, Chinese, accounts for nearly two thirds of all the characters, letters, and symbols in Unicode. Is that a cost effective use of bandwidth? Does that slow the system down? Especially considering that over half of the CJK characters are almost never used (we know neither the sound nor the meaning of many of them), so they are really just taking up space.
Actually, I don’t see why Apple couldn’t include sign language fonts/emoji sets… There are systems for encoding those, you know? http://www.signwriting.org/forums/software/unicode/unicod00.html
The fact that the author poses the question "What is the point or purpose of keeping them active in Unicode when they are almost never or never invoked?" shows that they have entirely missed the point of Unicode, and also misunderstand the technology involved (as pointed out extensively in the comments on the article). Yikes.
The assistance dog which represents ‘hidden disability’ doesn’t work imho. How does that represent ‘I have speech problems’ or ‘I have an anxiety disorder but don’t need an animal’?
Perhaps a universal sign is required, or perhaps just treat everyone with understanding and compassion.
Perhaps a universal sign is required, or perhaps just treat everyone with understanding and compassion.
