New Emoji Represent People with Disabilities
February 5, 2019
By: Edward C. Baig
Source: USA Today
A person with a white cane, an individual sitting in a motorized wheelchair, a prosthetic arm, someone signing the word “deaf.”
These are among the 13 variants of emoji to represent people with disabilities that were proposed last March by Apple to the global organization that adopts standards for emoji. And now that organization, the Unicode Consortium, has added these accessibility themed characters to the list of forthcoming emoji.
Around 1 in 7 people globally has some form of disability, including visual, hearing and motor impairments.