It is important to mark the accessibility provisions of any cultural event. There are many ways to go about this be it on traditional or online media. The most efficient way to inform of the different access services is to use pictograms or symbols. It would be perfect if standardized symbols for media accessibility were available. But right now symbols are not universal they vary across countries and also within countries. Let’s start from the first UN agreed symbol. You can find on the following link. The accessibility logo is conveyed by a circle with a universal human figure with open arms that symbolizes inclusion for all people. Now, we can move to other symbols such as those approved by ISO the International Organization for Standardization. If you go to their Online Browsing Platform and search for graphical symbols on accessibility the result will be the following. Seven symbols, like those to indicate access for people with walking impairments. More searches on words as audio description provide other symbols. Not everybody uses the same symbols and there are movements to push to change some of the already established ones. This is the case of the International Symbol of Access also known as the wheelchair symbol. You may be familiar with this because you have seen it in many places. It was created in 1968 by Susanne Koefed and it was later endorsed by ISO. Still, a group called the Accessible Icon Project has created a new logo and hopes it will replace the ISO standard. ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute also proposed a list of symbols. But, different cultural venues use different access symbols. For instance, in the Adelaide Festival 2015 a section of their website showed the access symbols used which were: wheelchair access, audio description, touch tour Auslan interpreting, assistive listening systems fully subtitled or minimal dialogue, partly subtitles or includes dialogue and open captioning. Washington State Arts Commission also promotes other access symbols available at the end of this document. They propose symbols for individuals who are blind or have low vision for those with limited mobility for audio description, for telephone typewriting known as text telephone or telecommunications device for the deaf volume control telephone, assistive listening systems sign language interpreting, the information symbol closed captioning, open captioning and Braille. A final example: 30x30 offers a list of access symbols, such as large print access for blind or low vision users, wheelchair accessibility assistive listening systems, audio description, braille, closed captioning information, open captioning, relaxed performance sign language interpreting, visual eye symbols volume control telephone. Although access symbols aim to be universal some cannot be considered as the audio description symbol: AD. You cannot have letters in a pictogram since there are many writing systems. The same happens with the closed captioning symbol using "CC". To go towards a universal use of symbols an international organization should standardize them. ISO is now developing a document of accessibility symbols: "Icons for setting interaction modes" with reference code ISO/IEC NP 22607. Go and check on ISO website how it is developing. I'd like to stress out that symbols are useful in clearly signaling the access services in a cultural venue or for an event. It would also be an excellent idea to indicate on the website the accessibility symbols you are using to avoid any misunderstanding. So don’t hesitate and use them in your cultural venue or event.