People doing quick smart phone checks for sports scores or news. I gotta admit, I do feel left behind sometimes. “We’re supposed to keep up with various events, understand different memes, get the references, et cetera, and it all happened soooo quickly and sooooooooo visually.” “We’ve sort of arrived at this glance culture, haven’t we, where we take in so many things at a glance on a screen,” he said. I listened to the podcast and found myself agreeing with Damen when he lamented how the emoji craze is just one more example of how the technological world is becoming more and more visual.
I guess you can! But would I ever want to see a picture of that on a text message? Dunno.Īfter the powers that be added 150 new emojis to their operating systems late last month, the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Ouch blog asked Damen Rose, a BBC reporter who is blind, to demonstrate what emojis sound like on his Smart Phone. Can a person clench their teeth and smile at the same time? “Excited face with money symbols for eyes and stuck-out tongue”.“Nerdy face with thick horn-rimmed glasses and buck teeth”.Here’s a sampling of what I hear when choosing from the list of “Smileys and other people” emojis: VoiceOver reads the images out loud for those of us who can’t see them. Sometimes the added Gboard emoji suggestions will appear, but then later when typing the same word, you might not get the option at all.Two years ago I published a post here about how some people who are blind access a program called VoiceOver to use an iPhone - VoiceOver parrots every letter we type into a text, but it wasn’t until I upgraded to IOS 9 last month that I came face-to-face with an emoji.Ī key next to the space bar on the iPhone keypad lets users choose from lists and lisps and lists of emojis to use with texts. It’s also worth noting that the option can be a little temperamental. You can also activate the option by heading into Settings > Text correction > Show emoji suggestions. That does mean that you might not see the option for a little while, although updating to the latest Gboard build won’t do your chances of getting the added emoji suggestions any harm.
#DUNNO EMOJI UPDATE#
We’re only seeing the option on a few of our devices running Gboard version 9.92878 but according to the team over at Android Police, the update is rolling out via a server-side update. Everyone else might just find it a bit annoying, potentially losing one spelling correction section when typing out a message. For heavy emoji abusers, this might prove to be an exceptional timesaver. This latest change sees the three-column word suggestion section slot in two extra emoji on the right-most panel when hot words related to the word your typing are detected.įor instance, when typing the word “money” or “weather”, Gboard will surface two related emoji in that right-most suggestion panel should you want to quickly add them. Often when you’re typing, word suggestions may include an emoji as an option to select. The latest addition hints that Google wants us using more emoji as the spelling or word suggestion bar now manages to cram in extra icons in the latest Gboard release.
#DUNNO EMOJI FOR ANDROID#
Gboard for Android has added some neat - and highly requested - features to the popular mobile keyboard.
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