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Symbolizing Accessibility (Joe Clark) -- "After half a decade of attempts and a misapplication of the “classic” wheelchair icon, we finally have something that might work as a generic indicator of accessibility – from Apple, of all places."

Replies: 3 comments

Interesting rant from Joe, but now I'm thinking maybe I'm going blind ... I couldn't see an example of the Apple icon he espouses in his article.

Posted by Eric Scheid @ 01/03/2002 12:23 PM EST

I believe the Universal Access icon is the one you are looking for. [link to the image from the article]

Posted by Brad Lauster @ 01/03/2002 07:03 PM EST

You mean in this table?

Posted by Joe Clark @ 01/04/2002 08:45 AM EST

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