National foreword

This British Standard is the UK implementation of ISO/IEC 17549‑1:2022.

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

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This British Standard was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 31 July 2022.

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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

Menus are frequently used for human–machine interface navigation of functions and contents. But many different types of menus exist and many different manipulation procedures occur. Such a variety of procedures often disturbs the user.

Menus and associated means of action should offer users an easy and continuous ergonomics experience.

The ISO/IEC 17549 series defines menu navigation logic associated to a set of directional devices. It provides descriptions of functions for supporting navigation and activation.

The ISO/IEC 17549 series consists of three parts:

This document provides an overview of the design of navigation methods based upon menu selection for human–machine interfaces. It provides a framework of the “menu” user-interface element to help design an effective, efficient and satisfactory interactive system.
ISO/IEC 17549‑2, provides guidelines on the design of navigation methods for selection menus with use of a 4-direction device. It also provides recommendations for parameters to display screen settings, character sets and languages in use.
ISO/IEC 17549‑3 provides requirements and recommendations on the design of navigation methods for selection menus with use of a 1-direction device. It also provides recommendations for parameters to display screen settings, character sets and languages in use.

1 Scope

This document provides a framework for the ISO/IEC 17549 series describing user interface guidelines on menu navigation. It specifies requirements and recommendations on how to design usable and consistent navigation through the interface component called a “menu”. This document specifies how to select and validate elements displayed on menus.

This document covers design-consistent navigation inside menus. It does not include testing or organization of menus.

2 Normative references

3 Terms and definitions

4 Conformance

5 Framework of the ISO/IEC 17549 series

5.1 Software interfaces

5.2 Menus heterogeneity

5.3 Menu accessibility

5.4 Displays and commands coherency

5.5 Interface action means

BS ISO/IEC 17549-1:2022

Information technology. User interface requirements and recommendations on menu navigation - Framework

Current

Published:

31 Jul 2022