National foreword

This British Standard is the UK implementation of ISO/IEC 11581‑7:2024.

The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee ICT/2, ICT Accessibility.

A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its committee manager.

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This British Standard was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 30 September 2024.

Foreword

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This document was prepared by Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology, Subcommittee SC 35, User interfaces.

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Introduction

Many different user needs exist and many interaction modes have to respond to those needs. There is a need to represent these interaction modes with icons. They can be used to indicate to a user which modes are available to access the system and even which kind of adapted parameters a user can find inside the system.

1 Scope

This document provides requirements for the icons that are suitable for setting up interaction modes in all kinds of devices. It gives guidance about their purpose, their function, and how they are designed in order to be usable.

This document specifies two sets of icons:

icons that deal with global constraints that are taken into account by the product or service;
icons that are oriented to more specific functions.

Each icon is illustrated through a glyph, name, description and function.

2 Normative references

3 Terms and definitions

4 Conformance

5 Icons to indicate that accessibility is taken into account

5.1 Accessibility icon

5.2 Icons for system generic optimizations

5.3 Icons for system preset usage modes and settings

Bibliography

BS ISO/IEC 11581-7:2024

Information technology. User interface icons - Icons for setting interaction modes

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Published:

30 Sep 2024