AI Shopping Assistant Improvement
21 Sep 2026

Screen readers now skip the emojis in your conversations

Shoppers who follow the conversation with a screen reader heard every emoji read out under its full technical name, enough to lose the thread of a message.

Emojis are now hidden from screen readers and other assistive tools: the reading runs through the message without stopping on them, and they stay visible on screen for everyone else. One more criterion of the accessibility audit is met, after the ones your Shopping Panel already covers.

This applies to every conversation, with nothing to set up.