New ISO standard for spinal disc implants

Posted by: CynthiaL on May 9th, 2008

29 January 2008 International Organization for Standardization press release

A new ISO standard for spinal disc implants will help reduce suffering of back pain patients. The new standard will help ensure that spinal disc prostheses meet requirements for wear resistance, particularly important as once implanted these will need to absorb the impact from the body’s daily [...]

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New ISO standard will make crossing the street safer for disabled persons

Posted by: CynthiaL on May 9th, 2008

2008-02-12
Equipping pedestrian street crossings with acoustic and tactile signals to help disabled persons was a step forward. The problem is that they vary from one country to another. Now, a new ISO standard provides the basis for harmonizing such signals on a worldwide basis.
The aim of ISO 23600:2007, Assistive products for persons with vision impairments [...]

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Accessible ICT Documentation for Europe?

Posted by: admin on May 3rd, 2008

(Note: This article originally appeared in the Spring 2008 edition of Communicator, the quarterly journal of ISTC - Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators. The AccessAbility SIG is grateful for the permission to reprint the article here.)
Richard Hodgkinson reports on new developments for European ICT documentation accessibility.
Regular readers of these pages will recall my reports [...]

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ISO Standards for Usability, Accessibility, & Software Documentation

Posted by: admin on April 18th, 2008

SIG member, Richard N. P. Hodgkinson, Fellow of the U.K. ISTC (Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators), is the editor for two ISO standards related to usability, accessibility, and systems software documentation:

ISO/TS 16071:2003: "Ergonomics of human-system interaction — Guidance on accessibility for human-computer interfaces"
ISO/IEC FDIS 18019:2003(E): "Software and systems engineering — Guidelines for the design [...]

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