Re: Fwd: Universal Access icon

["William Jon McCann" <mccann jhu edu>]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Calum Benson <Calum Benson sun com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 08:47 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
>
>> Also (and this isn't really a documentation-related thing), isn't the
>> wheelchair insignia universally recognized for this?  Is it
>> really a good idea to switch to something that doesn't have
>> a clear link to accessibility?
>
> The wheelchair is a commonly-used symbol, but AIUI it's not all that
> popular within some parts of the accessibility community itself, where
> it's considered to symbolise mobility impairments only.
>
> (I guess Apple saw it the same way, they also use the 'universal man' as
> their Universal Access symbol-- a term that we might want to consider
> adopting ourselves.)

FWIW, that is my understanding as well.

Will Walker provided one of the prototype designs for this icon
(though clearly modelled one from another OS).  He has been using it
on the a11y team pages for a while now:
http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility

I assume that he, at least, is OK with the icon.

If there are any areas of the accessibility guide that need fixing in
response to this change then I'm willing to help do that.

So, can we get docs team approval for this change?  Please - its much nicer :)

Thanks,
Jon