Emojis for people with disabilities are being proposed by Apple, saying “diversifying the options available” to this section of the community will help “fill a significant gap and provides a more inclusive experience for all,” Engadget reported.
The new emojies would include service dogs, people using wheelchairs, prosthetic limbs, a person using a white cane, as well as an ear with an attached hearing aid, USA Today reported.
Apple said it has been working with the American Council of the Blind, the Cerebral Palsy Foundation and the National Association of the Deaf to create 13 new emojis to better represent people living with vision, hearing and motor disabilities.
“Adding emoji emblematic to users’ life experiences helps foster a diverse culture that is inclusive of disability,” Apple wrote in its proposal to the Unicode Consortium.
“This new set of emoji that we are proposing aims to provide a wider array of options to represent basic categories for people with disabilities.”
According to Apple, one in seven people around the world has some form of disability.
This could be a physical disability involving vision, hearing, or loss of physical motor skills, or a “more hidden, invisible disability.”
The company said while it believes the current range emojis available provided a “wide array of representations of people, activities, and objects meaningful to the general public,” very few speak to the “life experiences of those with disabilities.”
The decision to develop a set of emojis that would be “accessible to everyone” drew approval across social media.
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