Teams - Revert to Classic Emojis

I agree with everyone on this thread. We need to make it clear to Microsoft that we are not just complaining about the style of these emojis. It's also about the difficulty in interpreting the emotions they are supposed to represent and the potential for workplace misunderstandings. I've created a separate post to that effect here:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/difficulty-interpreting-emotions-being-expressed/00178845-51c7-4bb0-aaff-fa431d50c34b

I don't know if another post will help but I can't sit silent about this because I really do think it's already made our work chats less authentic and more confusing. I'm also wondering if we can make an accessibility complaint, given how unclear the emojis are from a visual standpoint.

I hate these new emojis and I can't use them in a professional setting. I have reverted to the windows ones where I want to use an emoji (windowskey + . (period) for anyone else struggling)

Microsoft has now merged all the upvoted feedback into a "feedback collection' without consolidating the votes, or any links to the originals to allow them to be reviewed. If you've not spotted it already please upvote the new one: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/77fa83ab-c319-ed11-b83e-000d3a4d92e4

Poor show Microsoft but I guess not surprising.

You may want to log a feature request; describe what you want as an "idea" and then post your link here and let people up-vote it: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/39d837d7-6512-ed11-a81b-6045bd7d68ae

I was told the Microsoft works on the items with the most up-votes. All of the comments - thousands of them... I don't know if they have some AI script that groups and pools the related content, otherwise our voices are watered down. If you post a link to a request that you open, I will 'up-vote' it.

Now they've simply frozen the voting, not aggregated the voting, and are only allowing you to vote for their idea of improving the new emojis. Microsoft has gone "Business-deaf" in favor of their really bad idea, ignoring the clear and distinct feedback from the business community to REVERT!!! NO, WE DON'T WANT IMPROVEMENTS TO THE BAD "NEW" EMOJIS, WE WANT THEM REVERTED. You're not listening, Microsoft.

Here's another site with dozens of complaints - feel free to up-vote ALL of the complaints!

https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/search/ad198462-1c1c-ec11-b6e7-0022481f8472?q=new+emojis&OCID=usoc_TWITTER_MicrosoftTeams_M365_spl100002905619258

I don't think 3D emojis can ever be accessible to people with visual impairments. Most 3D images look strange on a 2D background, and emojis in particular are not well suited to it because they are so small. The 3D Fluent Teams emojis have the added challenge of being difficult to interpret even if you can see them - they are creepy and don't evoke the emotions they are intended to evoke.

Microsoft has a Disability Answer Desk that addresses accessibility issues. You might want to try contacting them to ask that we be allowed to use high-contrast, 2D emojis on Teams for the sake of accessibility and inclusiveness in the workplace. The easiest solution would be for us to be allowed to choose the old emoji set, but even a new 2D set would be better than the new ones. My colleagues and I really don't feel comfortable with them and they could lead to workplace misunderstandings.

Here's a link to the accessibility site: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Accessibility/disability-answer-desk?activetab=contact-pivot%3aprimaryr9