Interactive Application Guidelines Overview

These guidelines provide standards for issues such as:

• Column title formats

• Report headers

• Currency

• Tab sequence

• Font defaults

The interactive application guidelines provide design standards for the appearance and function of the controls that developers use in interactive applications. A control is an object on a form that enables the user to interact with an application.

While many of these standards apply to all form types, separate guidelines contain specific standards for each particular form type. Where appropriate, the guidelines also include industry-specific instructions, such as one set of instructions for manufacturing and distribution applications, and another set of instructions for financial applications.