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Announcing The Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0:
Version 13.0 of the Unicode Standard is now available, including the core specification, annexes, and data files. This version adds 5,390 characters, for a total of 143,859 characters. These additions include four new scripts, for a total of 154 scripts, as well as 55 new emoji characters.
The new scripts and characters in Version 13.0 add support for modern language groups in Africa, Pakistan, South Asia, and China:
[...] Support for scholarly work was extended worldwide, including:
[...] Popular symbol additions include:
[...] Important chart font updates, including:
[...] Additional support for lesser-used languages and scholarly work was extended, including:
When will the first, all-emoji story or comment appear on SoylentNews? What are people going to do if they use text-only browsers or are visually-impaired?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by progo on Sunday March 29 2020, @03:32AM (3 children)
Isn't this something Jaws can fix? All emoji have English names. I think Jaws should be able to say SOMETHING instead of nothing at all when it reads a message with emoji in it.
But I'm not a fan of the concept of using emoji to write messages. Screen readers aren't the only place where emoji cause usability issues. I'm sure some people have a much harder time than others visually decoding emoji and inserting the meaning into the actual FLOW of whatever is being said -- it's a different language and it's mentally jarring. It increases the mental load to scan or read the text. (And, come to think of it, in the case of a more capable screen reader, it would probably end up using WAY too many syllables to get the point across compared to the case where the writer just used the right words.)
(Score: 1) by ShadowSystems on Sunday March 29 2020, @04:30AM (2 children)
Jaws considers emoji the same way it considers icons -- as tiny pictures with no text to OCR. No text means nothing to read & therefore inherently useless to the blind.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @05:51AM
Mine reads the official description out loud. I believe JAWS can be set to do that too.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Sunday March 29 2020, @03:52PM
I'd say submit a patch, but then I remembered what JAWS is. Is there still a reason you're on JAWS and not on something under a free software license, such as NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) [wikipedia.org]?