what do wheelchairs symbolize
â¿ Wheelchair Symbol. The international symbol of access, used to denote a facility which has been designed with wheelchair users in mind. Appears as a blue sign, with a white graphic of a person sitting in a wheelchair. The Twitter version of this symbol displays a more active person in the wheelchair, in similar appearance to the Accessible Icon Project image. The Wheelchair Symbol emoji was approved as part of Unicode 4.1 in 2005.