For some years now, the ubiquitous "handicapped" symbol — a blue and white logo of a person leaning back in a wheelchair known as the international symbol of access — has come under fire from disability activists who feel the logo paints disabled people as passive. Now, according to a report in The Chronicle of Higher Education , a new logo might be gaining some traction. New York City has agreed to start using a more active logo designed by activists at Gordon College in eastern Massachusetts; current plans call for NYC to start displaying the logo all over the city starting this summer. "It's such a forward-moving thing," said Victor Calise, commissioner of the New York mayor's Office for People With Disabilities.
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