What is BS EN 1332-3 - Identification card systems about?
BS EN 1332-3 is an international standard that focuses on identification card systems.
BS EN 1332-3 covers the ergonomic layout and usability of keypads. The keypad consists of numeric, command, and function keys, and alphanumeric characters.
BS EN 1332-3 aims to enhance usability, ensure ease of use through consistency, increase customer confidence, reduce customer error, improve operating time, ensure ergonomic data entry, on the basis that keypad layout impacts performance (keying speed, and errors).
BS EN 1332-3 specifies the arrangement, the number, location of numeric, function, command keys, including placement of alphabetic characters on numeric keys. It provides design requirements and recommendations.
Note: BS EN 1332-3 applies to all identification card systems with a numeric keypad for use by the public for stationary or non-stationary devices. It also covers keypads on touch-sensitive devices.
Who is BS EN 1332-3 - Identification card systems for?
BS EN 1332-3 on identification card systems is useful for:
- IT Companies
- Hospitals
- Insurance Companies
- Banks
- High-security zones
Why should you use BS EN 1332-3 - Identification card systems?
Machine-readable cards facilitate the provision of a growing variety of services across Europe. The purpose of the BS EN 1332-3 is to increase the accessibility of these services for the benefit of consumers. This can be achieved by facilitating the inter-sector and cross-border interoperability of machine-readable cards and to do so with the maximum possible degree of user-friendliness.
BS EN 1332-3 addresses the needs of the widest possible range of users, like the aged, minors, people with disabilities, those with learning difficulties, first-time users, and those not conversant with the local language.
BS EN 1332-3 specifies design principles for the user interface (including symbols) which are to be incorporated into the design of card-operated devices, but not the machine operations associated with the selection and delivery of goods or services.
BS EN 1332-3 also specifies the tactile identifiers incorporated into the design of machine-readable cards, standard layout for the keypads of card-operated devices, coding of user requirements for people with special needs, and tactile markings for differentiating cards by application.
BS EN 1332-3 guides you with the design for accessible card-activated devices. It also provides you with guidance for the design and location of card-activated devices and the immediate environment to facilitate access for the users.
What’s changed since the last update?
BS EN 1332-3:2020 supersedes BS EN 1332-3:2008, which is withdrawn. BS EN 1332-3:2020 includes some technical changes with respect to BS EN 1332-3:2008. These include:
- Inclusion of touch-sensitive devices
- Differentiation between stationary and non-stationary devices
- Clarification on some issues
- General updating of text to modern situations
