Re: Universal Access icon
Andreas Nilsson <[email protected]>
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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 _______________________________________________ gnome-themes-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-themes-list