Emojis are useful, Our screenreaders can even detect some of them but W R I T I N G L I K E T H I S I S J U S T A N N O Y I N G because it's going to read those letters one by one and that's kindda annoying.

I don't mind other people using emojis. I can't see the images well enough to use them - I'm terrified I will accidentally send an inappropriate reaction because I thought it was something else. I use text emojis though! :)

Emojis are fine, just try reading computer code.

I don't mind unless people spam them in their social media names or in general. I know of people who just despise them, but there is this rather insular element of the blind community who detest change. The other stuff when you ReAlLy WaNt tO sHoUt, I hate that as it fucks with my screen reader horribly. I also hate when people use Cyrillic letters or letters from other alphabets to look cutesy because again, it fucks with my screen reader.

I like emojies but can’t see them properly on my keyboard or in texts.... so I use the same 3-5 all the time. I really wish I could just type “heart” for example and get a list of all of the options at once . Instead of just one option

Every screen reader I've used can read them. Just don't use more than a few at once. I think that goes for everyone, regardless of visual acuity

Bane of my existence.

I don't use them, and I loathe when someone uses them towards me. On screen magnification, here I come!

I use them from time to time, sparingly, but I hate when sighted people use nothing but emoji in their replies or instead of words in the sentences, it annoys me

So I'm not blind, just visually impaired, so for me it depends on the emoji. I think they and emoticons are super good at communicating the tone of a conversation or text post, but I can only really comprehend the simplest versions of them.

For example I can totally recognise simple faces but the more complex they get, say animals or the families or anything with lots of detail, it's too much in too small a space for me to grasp. Sinpler the better for me

I rarely use emojis because hunting down the right ones to use and typing them is annoying as hell. When people use them sparingly, it's better. People don't realize that each emoji has Alt text, so they are fully described. At the same time, people don't know how they are described so it gets frustrating when they try to use emojis as substitutes for words.

For example, there's an emoji of a hand with the index finger raised, so it's like a hand indicating One item. People have used this to try to shorten the string "One more thing" by using the emoji in place of "one." What ends up happening is we screen reader users hear "Front facing hand with index finger extended more thing." which is just dumb.

I hate it when people string tons of emojis in a row, either the same one or multiple, since then I have to sit and listen to all that alt text while waiting to get to actual text content. If they are all inline with text, it's very difficult to skip through them all to find the text.

That being said, I use emoticons all the time. Typing the sideways punctuation faces gets interpreted by screen readers which is nice. So ":" becomes "smiley" etc.

I don't mind them all that much in moderation, though sometimes they result in codepage issues or the like, but that's a Unicode problem more generally. I'm more used to ascii smileys such as :-) or ;) and they're easier to write.

There are two things about emoji that are annoying though: one is the tendency to pile them up, sometimes the same one repeated, or a long combination of different ones; the other is how the canonical description may not have to do a lot with the cultural meaning. For example, apparently the aubergine emoji has some kind of sexual overtone. I'd never be able to work that out if someone didn't tell me.

My girlfriend is blind and from what I know of her experience, she has no problem with emojis. The screen reader reads the emoji out loud in a descriptive manner.

So, a standard smiley like this :-) Would be read as "Smiling face".
(I'm on PC and couldn't make a real emoji smiling face. And I'm aware that the smiley I just wrote would be read out as "colon dash right parenthesis" or something like that)

I love to use emojis. If I can’t find one, i write a certain word and an appropriate emoji shows up in the suggestion-bar over the keyboard.

If I for example write “apple” on the keyboard, an 🍎 will show up as a suggestion for me.

I like this feature since the emojis are more appropriate and you don’t have to look for that one emoji for an eternity!

I use them from time to time, sparingly, but I hate when sighted people use nothing but emoji in their replies or instead of words in the sentences, it annoys me

Oh cool. I only use the zoom but I might try that so that I can get a better description! Thanks

I hate them! They are really annoying.

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They suck