ISO 9241 Subject description

Part 1: General Introduction contains general information about the standard and provides an overview of each of the parts.
Part 2: Task Requirements discusses the enhancement of user interface efficiency and the well being of users by applying practical ergonomic knowledge to the design of VDT wok tasks.
Part 3: Display Requirements specifies requirements for visual displays and their images.
Part4: Keyboard Requirements specifies the characteristics that determine the effectiveness in accepting keystrokes from a user.
Part 5:Workstation Requirements specifies the design characteristics of workplaces in which VDTs are used.
Part 6: Environmental Requirements specifies characteristics of the working environment in which VDTs are used.
Part 7: Display requirements with reflections describe how to maintain usable and acceptable VDT image quality by evaluating the reflection properties of a screen and the image quality of the screen over a range of typical office lighting conditions.
Part 8: Requirements for displayed color states specifications for display color images, color measurement metrics, and visual perception tests.
Part 9: Requirements for non-keyboard input devices specifies requirements for the design and usability of input devices other than keyboards.
Part 10: Dialogue Principles specifies a set of high-level dialogue design principles for command languages, direct manipulation, and form-based entries.
Part 11: Guidance on Usability explains the way in which the user, equipment, task, and environment should be described-as part of the total system-and how usability can be specified and evaluated.
Part 12: Presentation of Information specifies requirements for the coding and formatting of information on computer screens.
Part 13: User Guidance specifies requirements and attributes to be considered in the design and evaluation of the software user interfaces.
Part 14: Menu Dialogues provides conditional requirements and recommendations for menus in user-computer dialogues.
Part 15: Command Dialogues provides conditional recommendations for common languages.
Part 16: Direct Manipulation Dialogues provides guidance on the design of manipulation dialogues in which the user directly acts upon object or object representations (icons) to be manipulated.