Re: Universal Access icon

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

William Jon McCann wrote:
> Hi artists,
>
> As some accessibility features become more integrated into our
> platform and user interfaces the icon that represents them, naturally,
> becomes more visible.  I think many of us have been vaguely unhappy
> with the current  icon in the gnome-icon-theme [1].  It is a rendering
> of the International Symbol of Access [2] which looks like this: ♿.
> In practice, this is used primarily for mobility impairments. And as a
> symbol of "Universal Accessibility" it is a little icky that it only
> represents one type of impairment.
>
> I discussed this briefly with Will Walker and some other members of
> the a11y team and there seems to be significant agreement.  In fact,
> Will himself decided to draw an icon to use on the team web pages [3].
>  It looks like this:
> http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=logo.png
> (As I understand it, efforts to move to this type of icon in the past
> were bikeshedded to death)
>   
Hi William!
I think a icon based on the logo makes very much sense.
Note that KDE also use this symbol [1], [2] and so do we, but inside the 
Assistive Technologies Preferences dialog [3].
I'll try to cook something up.

1. 
http://websvn.kde.org/*checkout*/trunk/KDE/kdebase/runtime/pics/oxygen/128x128/apps/preferences-desktop-accessibility.png?revision=755647
2. 
http://www.tomshw.it/guides/ictbusiness/business/20080129/images/systemsettings.gif
3. http://www.andreasn.se/diverse/temp/a11y-prefs.png

- Andreas