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Symbols that tell a person what they can reach and how: the International Symbol of Access, sensory and communication marks, and the notations of Braille and sign language.
Here when the symbol's subject is a person's access to a place, a service or information. A safety sign that happens to be tactile is filed under safety and hazard.
Officially standardised through ISO 7001 and national accessibility codes, with common usage covering the marks that spread faster than any body could define them.
All 103symbols in this domain, A–Z.
An eye paired with a hand or text, marking provision for partial sight.
Marks naming large print, braille and audio versions.
A forward-leaning wheelchair user in motion, offered as a redesigned access symbol.
A dog in a harness, indicating that assistance dogs are admitted.
A speaker or head with sound radiating from it, marking described content.
Circles and crosses plotting hearing loss by ear and frequency.
An adult figure bending over an infant on a table, marking changing facilities.
A symbol language meant to need no translation.
Rows of raised domes warning of a crossing point.
A single dot marking omission or possession.
A cell with no dots raised, marking a space.
A cell marking the following text as bold.
A dot-six cell marking the next letter as a capital.
A tripled capital sign marking a run of capitals.
A doubled capital sign marking a whole word as capitals.
A lower cell closing quoted speech.
A single lower dot marking a pause.
A single cell standing for the whole word and.
A single cell standing for the letter pair ar.
A single cell standing for the ending ble.
A single cell standing for the letter pair ch.
A single cell standing for the letter pair er.
A single cell standing for the whole word for.
A single cell standing for the ending ing.
A single cell standing for the letter pair sh.
A single cell standing for the letter pair th.
A single cell standing for the whole word the.
A single cell standing for the whole word with.
The convention numbering the six cell positions one to six.
A lower cell marking emphasis or an exclamation.
A cell in the lower part of the frame ending a sentence.
A cell suspending contractions for what follows.
A two-dot cell joining words or breaking a line.
A cell marking the following text as italic.
A cell forcing what follows to be read as a letter.
A cell raising, lowering or restoring a pitch.
Pitch and duration in one cell.
A cell giving both a note's pitch and its duration.
A cell fixing which octave a note belongs to.
A cell marking a silence of stated length.
A cell marking the following characters as digits.
A lower cell opening quoted speech.
A lower cell marking an interrogative.
Dots beside the printed sign.
Six dot positions in two columns of three.
A six-dot cell in two columns of three, indicating braille provision.
A mark for a toilet with a hoist, a bench and space for two carers.
A screen with a tail.
The letters CC on a rounded card, marking captioned content.
Seven sides, a bimetallic ring, a scalloped edge — denomination by feel.
Grids of symbols used to speak without speech.
Raised hands twisting from the wrist, used in place of clapping.
A mark for a document written and illustrated for accessibility.
A figure on an inclined stepped line, marking a moving staircase.
A sign for a chair used to take someone down stairs in a fire.
A set of hand shapes standing for the letters of a written alphabet.
A hand for each letter.
A phonetic alphabet for the hands.
A sign saying where in a building a loop actually works.
An outlined ear with a diagonal bar, usually with a 'T' in the lower-right corner — indicating an assistive listening system, and specifically an induction loop when the T is present.
Yellow sunflowers on a green lanyard, signalling a non-visible disability.
A lower-case letter i, marking an information point.
A stylised white figure in a wheelchair on a blue square background, indicating accessible facilities.
A stylised ear in a green square.
A heart with a cross inside it.
A white cane held up above the head.
A hand writing on a pad.
A seat marked in pink for pregnancy.
The words 'Large Print' set in oversized type.
An escape route marked at floor level.
A rod-of-Asclepius badge worn to signal a condition.
A colour standing for a line.
A picture for every station.
Simplified raised outlines derived from Roman letters.
A two-cell form for equality in the Nemeth code.
Cells opening and closing a fraction.
A braille cell for subtraction in the Nemeth code.
A braille cell for addition in the Nemeth code.
Cells opening and closing a root expression.
A cell lowering what follows below the baseline.
A cell raising what follows to an exponent.
A seated figure holding an infant, marking a breastfeeding room.
A figure with a marked abdomen and a basin.
A blue square showing a walking figure on a striped crossing, marking a place for pedestrians to cross.
A bottle you can read in the dark.
A mark for a period with reduced noise and lighting.
A protected place to wait for assisted evacuation.
A surface treatment removing the kerb between traffic and pedestrians.
A word in capitals standing as a label for a sign, not a translation of it.
Two hands shown mid-gesture, indicating that interpretation is provided.
A two-dimensional script recording handshape, movement and facial expression.
A group of keys pressed together on a stenotype machine to write one syllable.
A mark promising a route without steps, not necessarily a level one.
Three parameters in a line.
Raised dots or bars letting a note be identified by touch.
Bars underfoot showing the way.
Raised lines, textures and braille on a map to be read by hand.
Blisters underfoot at a hazard.
A telephone handset above a row of keys, marking a textphone.
A three-lamp signal head showing red, amber and green in a fixed vertical order.
Letters made with both hands.
A capital for every English sound.
A fraction or a decimal describing how well someone sees.