Accessibility Emojis

19 emojis tagged accessibility in the official Unicode CLDR project. Click any emoji for its meaning, copy-paste, and per-platform rendering.

Accessibility emojis cover assistive devices and disability representation — 🧏 deaf person, 👨‍🦯 man with white cane, 👩‍🦯 woman with white cane, 👨‍🦼 man in motorized wheelchair, 👩‍🦼 woman in motorized wheelchair, 👨‍🦽 man in manual wheelchair, 👩‍🦽 woman in manual wheelchair, 🦮 guide dog, 🦯 white cane, 🦻 ear with hearing aid, and 🦾 mechanical arm and 🦿 mechanical leg. The set was substantially expanded in 2019 (Unicode 12) after extensive advocacy from disability communities. Use them in inclusive content, accessibility advocacy, and stories about adaptive technology.

Frequently asked about accessibility emojis

Why were accessibility emojis added relatively late?

Unicode 12 in 2019 added the bulk of accessibility emojis after a proposal led by Apple in partnership with the American Council of the Blind, the Cerebral Palsy Foundation, and the National Association of the Deaf. Earlier sets had overlooked disability representation almost entirely.

Do wheelchair emojis support skin tones?

Yes — both manual (👨‍🦽 👩‍🦽) and motorized (👨‍🦼 👩‍🦼) wheelchair emojis support all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers, in both gendered variants and the gender-neutral 🧑‍🦽 and 🧑‍🦼 versions added later.

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