Now it’s diverging from Unicode, the universal standard bearer for emoji. That is, at least according to Emojipedia, which catalogs all the world’s emojis. This week, it tweeted that Facebook ...

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The update also adds more than a dozen emoji that represent members of the deaf and blind communities and people with disabilities. The characters, which were proposed last year by Apple ...

Unicode’s most recent emoji drop also included icons for hearing aids, canes used by the blind and visually impaired, motorized and manual wheelchairs, prosthetic legs and arms, service and ...

Apple worked closely with the American Council of the Blind, the Cerebral Palsy Foundation, and the National Association of the Deaf to ensure that every new emoji was correctly representative.