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The History of the International Accessibility Icon

Prior to the late 1960s, there was no universally agreed upon accessibility icon. The modern stick figure in wheelchair logo that we know today is actually a slightly modified version from the original. But as the logo got absorbed into the built environment, people with disabilities and their allies started finding it kind of lacking.

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