BS EN ISO 13406-2:2002

Ergonomic requirements for work with visual display based on flat panels. Ergonomic requirements for flat panel displays (British Standard)

This part of ISO 13406

• establishes ergonomic image-quality requirements for the design and evaluation of flat panel displays,
• defines terms needed to address image quality on flat panel displays,
• specifies methods of determining image quality on flat panel displays, and
• establishes ergonomic principles for guiding these requirements.

This part of ISO 13406 is applicable to

• flat panel display screens when used to perform office tasks,
• flat panel display screens that consist of a regular array of picture elements arranged in evenly spaced rows without built-in gaps,
• the presentation of fonts based on Latin-, Cyrillic- and Greek-origin alphabetic characters and Arabic numerals on flat panel display screens,
• the presentation of Asian characters, and
• flat panel display screens that are large enough to display at least 40 Latin-origin characters.

This part of ISO 13406 is not applicable to

• flat panel technology applied to a display that uses optics to form an image that is not the same size as the electro-optical transducer (projection applications of flat panel displays), or
• flat panel technology applied to a display limited to fixed-messages or segmented alphanumerics. [See 2.13 IEC SC 47C (Central Office) 3:1992].