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Icon Request: universal access #921

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jguddas opened this issue Jan 24, 2023 · 2 comments
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Icon Request: universal access #921

jguddas opened this issue Jan 24, 2023 · 2 comments

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@jguddas
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jguddas commented Jan 24, 2023

Icon Request

  • Icon name: universal-access
  • Use case: alternative accesibility icon
  • Screenshots of similar icons:

multiple circle icons like the play circle and a new icon that is the person icon inside the circle that is used by all the other circle icons


But the most important problem with the International Symbol of Access is this: it is exclusionary. The symbol is all about the wheelchair -- even though the majority of disabilities are not mobility-related.

Here in Ontario, less than three per cent of the 1.8-million people with disabilities actually use wheelchairs or other mobility devices! The same small percentage applies throughout most other jurisdictions. In other words, over 97 per cent of Ontarians with a declared disability are not taken into account by any of these symbols, all of which reinforce the idea that accessibility is primarily about accommodating wheelchairs.

https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/reimagining-accessibility-and-the-wheelchair-symbol_b_3997930

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jguddas commented Jan 24, 2023

I do think the wheelchair icon looks awesome, what I'm missing is a person standing inside a circle.
https://www.google.com/search?q=universal+access+icon&tbm=isch

I guess just using the person-standing icon is fine, for consistency we would need to create every icon with a circle/square/normal-off/circle-off/square-off variant 😨 .

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