NF ISO 24508

NF ISO 24508

August 2019
Standard Current

Ergonomics - Accessible design - Guidelines for designing tactile symbols and characters

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.

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National standards and national normative documents

Publication date

August 2019

Number of pages

19 p.

Reference

NF ISO 24508

ICS Codes

11.180.30   Aids for blind or partially sighted people

Classification index

X35-136

Print number

1

International kinship

Sumary
Ergonomics - Accessible design - Guidelines for designing tactile symbols and characters

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.

Table of contents
  • 1 Domaine d'application
  • 2 Références normatives
  • 3 Termes et définitions
  • 4 Lignes directrices pour la conception des symboles et caractères tactiles
  • 5 Autres facteurs à prendre en compte
  • Annexe A Exemples de symboles tactiles avec leur signification
  • Annexe B Données sur la lisibilité des symboles et caractères tactiles pour les personnes jeunes, les personnes âgées et les non-voyants
  • Annexe C Descriptions textuelles des figures utilisées dans le présent document
  • Bibliographie
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