[NAGDU] Apple gives us a sneak peak at new accessibility emoji, including this incredibly cute guide dog

Sun Mar 25 17:36:36 UTC 2018

I can envision using the cute guide dog emojie when writing to friends or a guide dog list about their dog working extremely well on a particular day.  That happened to me last Friday.  We took the bus and walked a good bit to get there.  Then my dog found this hallway which you approach from the outside that leads to an outdoor mall. Everyone calls this the tunnel.  It's a bit hard to find because there are a lot of other doorways which aren't the right one.   Then she took me right to the door of the pub we were looking for.  Yay Tally!
Deb and Tally
---- Cindy Ray via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote: 
> You put them in various messages. There are a lot of them in the iPhones
> that we can use and they are described. There should also be a person with a
> white cane though if there is to be a dog as all blind people don't use
> dogs.  Also, I don't know what androids have, but probably similar. I have
> taken to using them quite a bit lately as people use them on me.
> 
> Cindy Lou Ray
> cindyray at gmail.com
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> including this incredibly cute guide dog
> 
> I heard this on the news yesterday.  Is it a lab or a shepherd guide dog?
> And when would one use such an emoji?  I see plenty of emoji on Twitter, but
> have never been moved to use one myself.
> Tracy
> 
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> Subject: [NAGDU] Apple gives us a sneak peak at new accessibility emoji,
> including this incredibly cute guide dog
> 
> Apple gives us a sneak peak at new accessibility emoji, including this
> incredibly cute guide dog
> 
> By Chris Mills 
> 
> March 23rd, 2018 
> 
> URL:
> http://bgr.com/2018/03/23/new-iphone-emoji-apple-guide-dog-accessbility/
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> Apple has proposed a set of new emoji to the official world arbiters of tiny
> pictures, the Unicode Consortium. The new emoji are focused on
> accessibility, and include things like a guide dog, people in wheelchairs,
> and prosthetic limbs.
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> In its proposal to the Unicode Consortium, spotted by Emojipedia, Apple says
> that it "is requesting the addition of emoji to better represent individuals
> with disabilities. Currently, emoji provide a wide range of options, but may
> not represent the experiences of those with disabilities."
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> There are 45 new emoji when considering all possible skin tones and genders
> in the proposal. There are two different guide dogs, including one with a
> vest and one with a harness for a seeing-eye dog (pictured above). There are
> men and women in both manual and powered wheelchairs, men and women with
> canes, an ear with a hearing aid, the universal deaf sign, and prosthetic
> arms and legs.
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> Apple said that the proposals were developed in collaboration with
> "internationally respected community organizations" such as American Council
> of the Blind, the Cerebral Palsy Foundation, and the National Association of
> the Deaf. However, it also went to pains to point out that the proposal is
> not "meant to be a comprehensive list of all possible depictions of
> disabilities, but to provide an initial starting point for greater
> representation for diversity within the emoji universe."
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> The full set of images of new emoji are available over at Emojipedia. The
> Unicode Consortium will have to accept any new emoji proposals before
> including them in the next round of releases, and software makers will have
> to create imagery before releasing to the public. On that timeline, we might
> see the new accessibility emoji sometime next year.
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