In watching a video recording from the amazing Sara Hendren, I saw a wheelchair accessibility sign where the user is wheeeling to the left, not right…I was left wondering if, in places where the left side of the road is utilized, wheelchair icons go the other way to make sense of traffic direction. I have found some confirmation of this.
It also made me wonder, as we adapt the (Hendren-involved) universal signs for access, if we might lose some of this unique regional accessibility accessing. Is there something important to which way a wheelchair faces? We certainly wouldn’t want to show someone going backwards on all of our crosswalks.
Rachel Levit Ades 