diff --git a/docs/rules/accessible-emoji.md b/docs/rules/accessible-emoji.md
index ba55f4e04..f8920250a 100644
--- a/docs/rules/accessible-emoji.md
+++ b/docs/rules/accessible-emoji.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# accessible-emoji
+# [Deprecated] accessible-emoji
 
 Emoji have become a common way of communicating content to the end user. To a person using a screenreader, however, he/she may not be aware that this content is there at all. By wrapping the emoji in a `<span>`, giving it the `role="img"`, and providing a useful description in `aria-label`, the screenreader will treat the emoji as an image in the accessibility tree with an accessible name for the end user.
 
diff --git a/src/rules/accessible-emoji.js b/src/rules/accessible-emoji.js
index 26d329e9a..e74d8cce0 100644
--- a/src/rules/accessible-emoji.js
+++ b/src/rules/accessible-emoji.js
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ module.exports = {
     docs: {
       url: 'https://github.com/evcohen/eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y/tree/master/docs/rules/accessible-emoji.md',
     },
+    deprecated: true,
     schema: [schema],
   },