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Accessibility and Standards in Japan —Historical Overview and the Future—

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Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018) (IEA 2018)

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Abstract

Accessibility is one of the social keen issues in Japan. This social concern reflects Japanese Industrial Standards Committee, JISC, to develop more than 40 accessibility-related standards (JISs) by now for solutions of various problems that older people and people with disabilities have. Ergonomic knowledge and data are addressed as critical points that make JIS standards successful. Fundamental design methods such as color combination, font size, tactile markings, etc. were developed by taking account of effects of aging and disabilities. Some of them have been proposed for ISO standards to make international contribution of JISC with Japanese experiences in developing accessibility standards. These history and future issues are described here.

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  1. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan

    Nana Itoh & Ken Sagawa

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  1. Nana Itoh
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  2. Ken Sagawa
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Correspondence to Nana Itoh .

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  1. University of the Republic of San Marino, San Marino, San Marino

    Sebastiano Bagnara

  2. Centre for Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety, Tuscany Region, Florence, Italy

    Riccardo Tartaglia

  3. Centre for Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety, Tuscany Region, Florence, Italy

    Sara Albolino

  4. Fraunhofer FKIE, Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Thomas Alexander

  5. International Ergonomics Association, Tokyo, Japan

    Yushi Fujita

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Itoh, N., Sagawa, K. (2019). Accessibility and Standards in Japan —Historical Overview and the Future—. In: Bagnara, S., Tartaglia, R., Albolino, S., Alexander, T., Fujita, Y. (eds) Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018). IEA 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 824. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96071-5_153

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