<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Jun 8, 2024 at 1:20 PM Doug Ewell via Unicode <<a href="mailto:unicode@corp.unicode.org">unicode@corp.unicode.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
I never claimed that holding a cane with its bungee loop around one’s wrist was not a safety hazard. That is a misrepresentation. My comment was about reliance on vendors’ emoji glyphs, especially at small size, to illustrate or teach correct behavior.<br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">see Karishma Shah’s public-review comment in </span><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18138-access-fdbk.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18138-access-fdbk.pdf</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> , which appears not to have been heeded.)</span><br>...<br>
I don’t know that all people expect emoji glyphs to depict correct behavior, but it is certainly possible that some do. But I would imagine that blind people, and sighted people who work with them, would have better, more authoritative, more carefully designed guidelines for the proper use of equipment than emoji.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>A more conceivable scenario is not misinformation of users of canes themselves, as all users of any equipment, in particular those dependent on the equipment for their everyday functioning, are to heed proper manufacturers' or medical professionals' guidelines rather than look at tangentially related emoji for edification; but rather a distraction/annoyance due to sighted well-wishers who might observe one of the emojis in question (nowadays often depicted in high resolution, especially on mobile devices when they appear by themselves), and then would attempt to pester people with a vision impairment about an allegedly incorrect technique of using a cane; said distraction itself a potential safety hazard.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I hope that vendors take this proposed change on board and make the glyphs in their emoji fonts more consistent with safe and correct behavior.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>While acknowledging the merit of the current request, as well as the previously unheeded one of 2018, I hope that the vendors' heeding them does not engender a flurry of whimsical change requests regarding arbitrary emoji based on purported safety hazards.</div><div><br></div><div>Leo</div></div></div>