Icon Request: universal access

[jguddas]

Icon Request

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

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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

[karsa-mistmere]

We already have this: https://lucide.dev/icon/person-standing?search=accessibility

[jguddas]

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 :fearful: .