Guide for addressing accessibility in standards

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ISO/IEC Guide 71:2014 provides guidance to standards developers on addressing accessibility requirements and recommendations in standards that focus, whether directly or indirectly, on systems (i.e. products, services and built environments) used by people. To assist standards developers to define accessibility requirements and recommendations, it presents a summary of current terminology relating to accessibility, issues to consider in support of accessibility in the standards development process, a set of accessibility goals (used to identify user accessibility needs), descriptions of (and design considerations for) human abilities and characteristics, and strategies for addressing user accessibility needs and design considerations in standards.

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Identification
Category
Document type
Guide
Standard data
Code
ISO/IEC GUIDE 71:2014
ICS D8 en
01.120 / Normalización y reglas generales
11.180.01: Aids for disabled and handicapped persons in general
13.180 / Ergonomía
Bibliographic data
Edition
2
Place of publication
Geneva
Year
2014
Month
December
Pages
48
Language
English
Additional Information
Bibliographic file
AT Observatory