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ISO 24508:2019

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Ergonomics — Accessible design — Guidelines for designing tactile symbols and characters
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Hardcopy , PDF 1 User , PDF 3 Users , PDF 5 Users , PDF 9 Users

Language(s)

English, French

Published date

04-03-2019

This document provides design guidelines and requirements for tactile symbols and characters used for information and marking for people who need non-visual or non-auditory information. It is applicable to products, facilities and equipment in housing and transportation, services and packaging, where tactile symbols and characters may be used.

This document specifies the physical characteristics of tactile symbols and characters for ease of legibility by touch taking into account human abilities of tactile sense and their aging effect. It does not specify semantic characteristics of tactile symbols and characters.

This document is applicable to tactile symbols and characters of convex-type touched by fingers.

It is not applicable to specifically coded tactile symbols or characters such as those of Braille, nor to those with vibratory or temporal changes.

Committee
ISO/TC 159/SC 4
DocumentType
Standard
Pages
13
ProductNote
THIS STANDARD ALSO REFERES TO : ANSI A117.1:2003
PublisherName
International Organization for Standardization
Status
Current

Standards Relationship
NF ISO 24508 : 2019 Identical
SS-ISO 24508 : 2019 Identical
BS ISO 24508:2019 Identical
IS 18232 : 2023 Identical

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