What is ISO 24508- Accessible tactile design guidelines about?
ISO 24508 discusses the accessible tactile design guidelines. ISO 24508 is an international standard that provides for the designing of tactile symbols and characters.
ISO 24508 specifies design guidelines and requirements for tactile symbols and characters used for information and marking for people who need non-visual or non-auditory information.
ISO 24508 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.
ISO 24508 applies to products, facilities, and equipment in housing and transportation, services, and packaging, where tactile symbols and characters may be used. It is applicable to tactile symbols and characters of convex-type touched by fingers.
Note 1: ISO 24508 does not specify semantic characteristics of tactile symbols and characters.
Note 2: ISO 24508 does not apply to specifically coded tactile symbols or characters such as those of Braille, to those with vibratory or temporal changes.
Who is ISO 24508- Accessible tactile design guidelines for?
ISO 24508 on accessible tactile design guidelines is relevant to:
- Tactile graphic artists
- Architects
- Tactile symbols and characters designer
Why should you use ISO 24508- Accessible tactile design guidelines?
Tactile symbols are concrete representations developed for individuals who are blind or function as if they were blind and who have a practical need for a graphic language system. Tactile information is one of the methods for making products or environments more accessible.
The use of tactile information in a design requires proper consideration to best support human tactile senses so that the information is easily and correctly understandable.
ISO 24508 provides guidelines to design tactile symbols or characters that can be used as a communication tool with individuals who have complex communication needs due to additional disabilities.
ISO 24508 assists in building products and environments to make them more accessible and relevant to people that depends neither on vision nor hearing.
By adopting ISO 24508 you can expand the accessibility of products or environments by using ergonomic knowledge of human tactile abilities.
