> they don't degrade gracefully for blind users (or for sighted users on older hardware) It irks me when people, including blind people, advocate against some

> they don't degrade gracefully for blind users (or for sighted users on older hardware) It irks me when people, including blind people, advocate against something on accessibility grounds when it's something that current screen readers can handle perfectly well. Another example of this would be saying that JavaScript-dependent sites are inherently inaccessible. We should save our accessibility advocacy for things that are actually problems. The fact is that if we assume that people want to use little pictures to communicate, then exactly because emoji is part of the Unicode standard, we should encourage its use, as opposed to, say, graphics that may or may not have alt text.