There are 13 emojis designed by Apple that represent people with disabilities: there are people in wheelchairs, blind, hearing impaired, people who speak in sign language, a guide dog and even prostheses and a hearing aid. A step towards the visibility and inclusion of people with some type of disability.
The list of emoticons approved by the Unicode consortium for 2019 shows a new table of icons, Emoji 12.0, which adds 59 completely new designs along with 171 new variants of gender and skin tone, which adds a total of 230 new icons which will be included to those already existing for the keyboard of mobile devices.
There are a total of 13 emojis (in male and female versions), and in turn each one includes different skin tones, which adds up in total 43 new emojis for people with disabilities. But Apple announces that "it is not intended to be a complete list of all possible descriptions of disabled people", it is only intended to be "an initial starting point".
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Among the new emoji designs are also found couples of two men and two women holding hands. They will also include numerous culinary drawings, such as a waffle, an onion, a butter, a falafel, an oyster, a juice box, an ice cube ...
Also other designs such as a flamenco, a planet with rings, a sloth, a waffle, more colorful hearts, and new objects representative of cultures such as a sari, a 'rickshaw', a banjo or a glass of mate.
According to Unicode, new emoji usually begin to appear on mobile phones between the months of September and October, some platforms may launch them before. They also clarify that they are not the definitive designs, since each provider of mobile phones, PCs and web platforms will normally use images that fit their designs.
Children and adolescents are great users of social networks, so I see very positive that these emojis are included that they contribute to making disability visible.
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