New and Emerging Specs & Standards (August 2024)
ISO 10075-2:2024 Ergonomic principles related to mental workload Part 2: Design principles
Technical Committee: ISO/TC 159/SC 1
“This document gives guidance on design principles and on design of work systems, including task and equipment design (comprising robotics and intelligent autonomous systems) and design of the workplace, as well as working conditions with the inclusion of social and organisational factors, emphasising mental workload and its effects as specified in ISO 10075-1. It applies to the design of work and use of human capacities, with the intention of providing optimal working conditions with respect to health and safety, well-being, performance and effectiveness, preventing overload as well as underload, in order to avoid impairing effects and fostering the facilitating effects described in ISO 10075-1. This document includes the design of technical, organisational and social factors only and does not apply to problems of selection or training. This document does not address problems of measurement of mental workload or its effects. This document refers to all kinds of human work activities (see ISO 10075-1), not only to those which can be described as cognitive or mental tasks in a restricted sense but also to those with a primarily physical workload. This document is applicable to all those engaged in the design and use of work systems, for example system and equipment designers, employers and workers and their representatives, where they exist. This document is applicable to the design of new work systems as well as to the redesign of existing ones undergoing substantial revision.”
ISO/IEC 33202:2024 Software and systems engineering — Core agile practices
Technical Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7
“This document defines a set of core practices and concepts that have wide acceptance in organizations and industries using agile practices and concepts. This document defines a set of core practices that are present in agile methodologies. The practices and concepts defined in this document are applicable to a single agile team, as well as to multiple agile teams. These practices and concepts are applicable throughout the life cycle of software systems, products and services.”
Unicode webinar August 13: Bidirectional Text (Part 2): Delving into Bidi -- Registration Now Open!
“A number of scripts, such as Hebrew, Arabic and Urdu, write their letters horizontally on a page or screen, running right to left. A complication for these scripts is that other characters, such as digits, flow left-to-right, and can occur on the same line, or even alongside other left-to-right text, such as Latin. Text that handles both right-to-left and left-to-right text is called “bidirectional” text (“bidi” in short). In the second of a three-part series, Part 2 will delve deeper into more advanced topics and practical applications of bidirectional text processing. Three expert speakers will be on hand to provide detailed insights and answer your questions, ensuring you gain a comprehensive understanding of the subject. Who Should Register? Translators/Localizers; Localization Tooling makers; I18n infrastructure developers; Linguists and language researchers; Application developers; Content authors. Please note this session will also be recorded and available via the Unicode YouTube channel. Additional resources: Bidirectional Text (Part 1): The Basics of Bidi Video Recording: https://youtu.be/TWfvRdS_7x0; Frequently Asked Questions: https://unicode.org/faq/bidi.html”
Draft Notes Published by the Internationalization Working Group [W3C]
July 16, 2024 (1), July 16, 2024 (2), July 23, 2024, and July 30, 2024
“These documents point to resources for the layout and presentation of text in languages that use the Greek, Gujarati, Tamil, Javanese, Cherokee, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (UCAS), Osage, Japanese, and Tibetan scripts; Mongolian, Korean, Georgian, Ethiopic, Devanagari, Bengali, and Cyrillic scripts; Hebrew, Arabic and Chinese scripts; and Latin scripts. The target audience is developers of Web standards and technologies, such as HTML, CSS, Mobile Web, Digital Publications, and Unicode, as well as implementers of web browsers, ebook readers, and other applications that need to render text in these scripts.”
Draft Note: Collaboration Tools Accessibility User Requirements [W3C]
“The Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) Research Questions Task Force (RQTF) welcomes feedback on the updated Draft W3C Group Note Collaboration Tools Accessibility User Requirements. The document covers accessibility user needs, requirements, and scenarios for collaborative content creation and development tools. The solutions identified in this document are intended to influence the evolution of future accessibility guidelines, technical specifications, or features of collaboration tools and assistive technologies. They are also relevant to software developers who contribute to developing the collaborative experience. Questions for this review are in e-mail for CTAUS review. Please send any comments by 30 September 2024.”
Applications Now Open for the Core Online Course Scholarship for Library Professionals from Developing Countries [ALA Core]
“We are now accepting applications for the Online Course Scholarship for Library Professionals from Developing Countries to participate in our online Fundamentals courses held between September 11, 2024 and December 22, 2024. One free seat per session is available to librarians and information professionals from developing countries. For full information about the scholarship, including eligibility criteria and a link to the application form, please visit our Online Course Scholarship page. The application deadline is August 18, 2024.”
