Stopcock emoji ??

Jul 29, 2019 Last reply: 6 years ago 5 Replies

Perhaps a wee smiley Toby jug?

Is there an emoji - or several - for the sort of water tap that goes under the edge of the pavement or the sort indoors near where the water enters the premises?



And, if so, how do I enter it/them in the ASCII code of a Web-type page that I am writing?


I hope not. One thing you may need to think about is that many people who visit web sites will have no idea what it means and blind people using screenreaders will not hear much but graphic if they are lucky. Accessibility is becoming mandatory, so really certainly add little touches, but use plain English as well to allow people to understand what the page is saying.

Brian

I was interested to find that the latest version of Office invites you by default to add a description of an imported image in PowerPoint (and perhaps in Word too?)

You may find a suitable combination of these:

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Or, something a bit abstract, like ⊗ or ⫱ (both on that above linked page), although some sort of key/legend would be required, I think :-)

I put "a Web-type page", not "a Web page". These will only be accessible to people with the right type of key, a square-ended one.

It's a D-I-Y job, so on-topic here - I want to have the stopcocks, switches, etc., in the communally-accessible parts of this block of flats to be permanently and legibly labelled (the stopcock labels are pen-on-cardboard, and have become only marginally legible [or worse] over the years), and, with a little simple CSS, I have drafted a page with the necessary labels, to be printed on A4, laminated, cut apart, hole-punched, and tied on. So I thought that it would be nice to add a stopcock emoji to each.

With a stopcock emoji not found, I'm now using a greatly-scaled down image.

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