[i18n-activity] COGA icon review suggestions (#1008)

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== COGA icon review suggestions ==
1.  Summary
https://www.w3.org/TR/coga-usable/#summary

These are comments on proposed changes at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aRoYev1aAIHhIq37Itt96ueBwLh5zXMUeJBYxL0MCkQ/edit#

This is related to https://github.com/w3c/i18n-request/issues/148

**ICON 1 Help users understand what things are and how to use them.**
![Screenshot 2021-01-13 at 16 51 03](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4839211/104483042-91e8ce00-55bf-11eb-9ab0-70256c6564ab.png)

I don't find this icon helpful to understand its meaning.  There are other potential issues that are i18n related.  The check mark in East Asia means incorrect; the circle means correct. So this creates a slightly different meaning, i think, from what was intended.

**ICON 3 looks ok to me, and better than what went before.**

**ICON 4 Provide support for different ways to understand content**
Again this doesn't suggest anything to me related to the idea it represents.  I think it's good to move away from use of gestures, though.
 
![Screenshot 2021-01-13 at 16 56 06](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4839211/104483768-64505480-55c0-11eb-9cfd-e5b2642dbab6.png)

I actually prefer the original icon, although i would colour in the small segment in the circle, so that it doesn't look like a clock face.


**ICONS 5 & 6** i have no comment on, other than to say that i agree with the concern about the icon that looked like crosshairs.  (This came up on CNN too, just a couple of days ago, in a political context in the USA.)


**ICON 7  Ensure processes do not rely on memory**
![Screenshot 2021-01-13 at 17 01 39](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4839211/104484298-0b34f080-55c1-11eb-9b17-b9a0e5d764d3.png)
It's not clear to me whether the habit of tying a string around your finger is recognisable worldwide.  I think that the equivalent in the UK would be to tie a knot in your handkerchief.  For other countries, this may signify nothing, though i suppose it would be understood if the reader figures it out.

I'd be inclined to do something with a picture of a brain...  Just an idea.


**ICON #10 Support adaptation and personalization**
I think this is an improvement, and i don't know of any i18n related issues.



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