Kayla O’Mahony graduated from Maynard High in June, but still has not seen the full fruits of her senior project. Over the last eight months, the 18-year-old spent many hours on a project to convert ...

"When I interact with people with disabilities they are beautiful," Brian Glenney said. Graffiti artist and philosophy professor Brian Glenney is among activists who aren't proponents of the stagnant ...

Recently graduated Maynard High School senior Kayla O’Mahony helped bring the Accessible Icon Project to Maynard. O’Mahoney learned about the project and then presented her idea to the Maynard Board ...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill last week that will both remove the word "handicapped" from signs for people with disabilities and update the standard wheelchair symbol with a more active ...

In coming months, as parts of New York City continue to rebuild after the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy, observant citizens may notice a small change in their neighborhoods. In parking lots ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - ECU is joining a design movement it hopes will make campus more inclusive of its handicap students and staff. Instead of the handicap logo you normally see on parking signs ...

Forecastle is about music and environmental activism, but the festival was part of a different kind of movement this weekend. The traditional handicap accessibility symbol got an upgrade on the ...

Merriam has become the first city in the Midwest to adopt a more contemporary version of the wheelchair-accessible icon. At a town hall meeting Monday night, the city council voted unanimously to ...

The International Symbol of Access. Via Wikimedia Commons The best design podcast around is Roman Mars’ 99% Invisible. On it he covers design questions large and small, from his fascination with rebar ...

As we previously reported, New York State and more recently, Connecticut, passed legislation requiring the use of the “Accessible Icon” in lieu of the traditional International Symbol of Access (“ISA” ...