According to statistics, one-seventh of the world's population is disabled, but people with disabilities are often not given enough attention by technology vendors. They should also have the same access to these technology products as ordinary people. Today, Apple Inc. A total of 13 new Emoji expressions have been proposed to enable disabled people to have their own Emoji. It is easier to express their needs in Internet communication. These new Emojis have wheelchairs, auxiliary arms, hearing aids, sign language, guide dogs, etc.
According to the Emojipedia report, Apple has submitted 13 new Emoji applications to the Unicode Consortium to better represent people with disabilities. Today's Emoji covers different races, different living experiences, and the only lack of people with disabilities. Representative Emoji.
The new Emoji includes the use of blind people using walking sticks, people in wheelchairs, people using sign language, guide dogs, hearing aids, auxiliary arms, auxiliary feet, etc., while wheelchairs are more subdivided into manual wheelchairs and electric wheelchairs. The total number of new Emoji will be 45.
The news is that the Unicode Technology Association will start a meeting next month to decide whether to adopt this batch of Emoji. If it passes the review, it will be added to the list of Emoji 12.0 and will be officially launched in the first half of 2019 as soon as possible.
Although Emoji for people with disabilities is not a substantive function, taking the experience of this group into account when designing a product is an attitude that should be taken when designing a product in the Internet of technology. In interaction design, interaction design for special groups of people It is called accessibility, which means that regardless of whether the physiological function is complete, anyone should enjoy the right to use all the functions of a hardware and software product.
