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A white cane held up above the head.
Also known as: White cane SOS Japan
A Japanese convention in which a blind person raises a white cane overhead to ask a passer-by for help.
Signals that a blind person needs assistance.
Contexts: Public information
Is a gesture rather than a drawn mark, and it is promoted through posters that draw the gesture, so what the catalogue holds is the depiction of a signal. Adoption is regional rather than national and some disability organisations oppose it on the ground that it is not widely enough recognised to be relied on.
Contexts: Public information
A standing figure holding a long straight stick raised vertically above the head at arm's length.
A fuller structured visual breakdown is not yet documented for this symbol.