What does this sign refers to you?
Most of you would answer accesibility but if you were in a wheelchair would you actually say this picture describes your accesibility?
This sign that we have been seeing all our lifes is nowadays being discussed and matters for doing it are. This sign focus on the wheelchair and not in the person, is passive sitting what people in a wheelchair show us? I don´t think so. I have been volunteering in a disable center and I can say that a wheelchair don't stop them from moving, for smiling, for living.
I am of course not the first one thinking this and a revolutionary change in this sign is being proposed:
1. Head forward
The person in a
wheelchair is the driver of he's own decisions. He is always moving forward.
2. Dynamic arm
Arm is pointing
backward to suggest the dynamic mobility of a chair user, the body in motion
represents the symbolically active status of navigating the world.
3. A not complete
circle
The wheel with
angled knockouts represents the wheel in motion.
4. Spreading the
symbol
A clear change. A
clearly different portrayal of a human body will clash the widely used icons we
all know leading us to confusion and future thinking.
5. Leg forward
The leg has been
moved forward to allow for more space between the user and the wheel. This
represent the independence of the wheelchair. They of course need a wheelchair
for transporting but there are a lot of things a wheelchair cannot stop them
doing.
Symbols talk, picture have meanings but they don't always send the correct message. This is an example but look around, there are lots of them.
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