Apple proposes new accessibility emojis, including prosthetic limbs and people with wheelchairs

Last month, we saw more than 100 new emojis that will come with Unicode 11.0. Now Apple has proposed even more new emojis for Unicode.

Apple has submitted a proposal for several new accessibility emojis. These include an ear with a hearing aid, guide and service dogs, people in wheelchairs, a deaf sign, and mechanical or prosthetic limbs. Apple says that it developed these emojis with organizations like the American Council of the Blind, the Cerebral Palsy Foundation, and the National Association of the Deaf.

These emojis must be approved by the Unicode Committee before they can become characters that you can use on your phone. If they're approved, they may be included in Emoji 12.0 in the first half of 2019.

We've seen emoji become more inclusive in recent years, adding more male and female variants of professions as well as adding skin tone options. While these new accessibility emojis haven't yet been approved, it's good to see more representation in emojis in the works, and hopefully these new characters will eventually make their way into an official emoji release.

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Apple proposes new accessibility emojis, including prosthetic limbs and people with wheelchairs originally posted at http://phonedog.com