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I also thought that was insulting with the wheel chair icon. A person in a wheel chair has problems walking, not (necessarily) their vision. How about "Help" in text?...less confusion and possible anger

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Apparently the wheel chair is actually an ISO standard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Symbol_of_Access

But it's a symbol for mobility - not for all disabilities.

There are symbols for visual impairment, but they're not international.

(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pictograms-nps-access...)

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HfEx4Y_O_Gs/Tf0huVPZBXI/AAAAAAAAAC...)

Since the point of the audio version is not to be hit with lawsuits under the ADA - perhaps it should just be a little icon of a lawyer?

I imaging that whole sites could be designed using only your proposed lawyer icon, possibly with some additional icon representing political correctness.

What's the international symbol for a lawyer?

https://www.google.com/search?q=parasite+icon

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