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by fiatjaf 3059 days ago
There should be an "alt" attribute that specifies to the transcriber what the face means.

Nevertheless, I'm very satisfied that they're using emoticons and not emoji.
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pault 3059 days ago
I think that's what aria-label[1] does. Also, I believe the correct term of art is "kamoji"[2]. Emoticons are faces constructed from ascii characters.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A...

[2] http://kaomoji.ru/en/

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wccrawford 3059 days ago
Spelling correction: Kaomoji, not "kamoji".

"Kao" is the japanese word for "face" and "moji" is "character".

That said, I don't think there's a "correct term" yet for these things. That's just what some people call them.

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