[il-talk] Apple's Accessibility Emojis

[Glenn III]

This Time Magazine article might be worth a read:
http://time.com/5213561/apple-proposed-accessibility-emoji/
It outlines Apple's emoji proposal (with samples) and has links to..

Apple's actual proposal:
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18080-accessibility-emoji.pdf
(the emoji mentioned of the girl with the short cane is identified as
"person with white cane [...] U+1F6B6 person walking").

and a link to a Fortune article about the process for an emoji to be
accepted by the Unicode Consortium--actually a very brief rehash of this
original LA Times article/interview with Unicode Consortium's co-founder
(which details the emoji approval process):
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-emoji-q-and-a-20160125-htmlstory.html
That process entails a 6 month period when a new emoji is posted for public
review on the Unicode Consortium's website ( http://www.unicode.org/review/
).

By the way, there are a number of accessibility emojis proposed by Apple,
including a "guide dog with harness" depicted as a yellow dog with a
harness, and a separate "service dog with vest and leash" depicted as a
German shepherd with a leash and pocketed vest.

-Glenn Moore III