Emojis add emotion to texts, but for young people with vision impairments using text-to-speech, their meaning is often lost. Voice assistants read emojis literally, causing confusion. To fix this, Verizon and Unicode launch Decoding Emojion, a metadata code that conveys the emotional meaning behind emojis. With neural text-to-speech, voice assistants can match the intended tone. By being open-sourced, it allows all voice assistants to integrate it, ensuring technology connects young people emotionally, no matter their sight. Because connecting people – means a great deal!