I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I think the premise is wrong: you can't have an emoji that captures something perfectly because of cultural differences.
There's the issue of accessibility as well. I struggle with emoji, and where possible turn them off so I can see the text description instead. The problem then is that, if a text description is adequate, then what purpose does the little picture serve?
Hi, I've been a professional developer and DevOps engineer for 20 years 🤓. I share original content from diverse real-world production experiences through monthly blog posts.
For the exact same reason that you put green/red colors on supervision dashboards instead of "OK", "KO" labels : it gives information that is, at the same time, taking less space and faster to understand (once you are used to).
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
Hi, I've been a professional developer and DevOps engineer for 20 years 🤓. I share original content from diverse real-world production experiences through monthly blog posts.
I was answering the question what purpose does the little picture serve?.
Indeed, disabled people have less options, and this sign is wrong, RR does not convey any useful information.
If your new question is how do we make everyone understand the information behind emojis, an automatic translation for them would be handy. I bet that it is what you mean by "turn them off".
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I think the premise is wrong: you can't have an emoji that captures something perfectly because of cultural differences.
There's the issue of accessibility as well. I struggle with emoji, and where possible turn them off so I can see the text description instead. The problem then is that, if a text description is adequate, then what purpose does the little picture serve?
For the exact same reason that you put green/red colors on supervision dashboards instead of "OK", "KO" labels : it gives information that is, at the same time, taking less space and faster to understand (once you are used to).
Here's a sign on the road near my home:
Imagine you couldn't distinguish between red or green?
I was answering the question
what purpose does the little picture serve?.Indeed, disabled people have less options, and this sign is wrong,
RRdoes not convey any useful information.If your new question is
how do we make everyone understand the information behind emojis, an automatic translation for them would be handy. I bet that it is what you mean by "turn them off".