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) It is clearly modelled on the icon used in OS X: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Universal_Access_icon.png Vista uses a variation on the ISA: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/windowsvista/images/icons/EaseOfAccess.jpg I think there is still a reason to keep the current "wheelchair" icon in the icon theme but I propose that we replace the default icon for preferences-desktop-accessibility with one that is more like the one Will has drawn. Anyone interested in giving this a shot? Thoughts? Thanks, Jon [1] http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-icon-theme/trunk/scalable/apps/preferences-desktop-accessibility.svg?view=markup [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Symbol_of_Access [3] http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility _______________________________________________ gnome-themes-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-themes-list
