NAVAIR INSTRUCTION 4120.11 From: Commander, Naval Air ...

NAVAIRINST 4120.11
employed to minimizing the differences in look-and-feel among
various disparate IETM presentation components that operate in
the JIA environment still exists. From both the Training and the
Job Performance perspective, the effectiveness of each product
is enhanced when it is displayed in accordance with a standard
style, even if the actual underlying IETM presentation
components vary and are proprietary in nature.
6.2 . Joint NAVAIR/Industry user-interaction requirements. A
preliminary set of standard “look-and-feel” recommendations is
included in this document. It may be used to prepare guidance
for the suppliers of IETMs and IETM software products. These
requirements permit the use of contractor selected authoring and
presentation products while, at the same time, preserving the
essence of a common NAVAIR look-and-feel if the software
products adhere to the requirements.
6.2.1 . Joint-Service IETM technology. These requirements are the
result of a workshop between members of the individual Services
(selected by the Joint-Service IETM Technology Working Group
members) and the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) Service
Publications Panel. The guidance contained herein greatly
reduces the existing performance requirements to those few that
are really needed, and tightens down those few remaining
recommendations to be as specific as possible. The intent is
that these requirements eventually replace the user-interaction
requirements sections of MIL-PRF-87268, Manuals, Interactive
Electronic Technical: General Content, Style, Format, and User-
Interaction.
6.2.2 . Contract guidelines. IETM TMCRs (Technical Manual Contract
Requirements) and other procurement instruments may reference
that delivered IETM view packages conform to both the JIA
performance recommendations and the included look-and-feel userinterface
recommendations. By doing so, it should be possible to
obtain a meaningful level of common NAVAIR IETM look-and-feel
interface without needing the acquisition of a custom IETM
system.
6.3 . Preliminary user-interaction requirements for NAVAIR IETMs.
The following is a preliminary set of IETM User-Interaction
(“look-and-feel”) requirements and should be observed in
preparing IETMs and the associated viewing software components
for NAVAIR:
6.3.1 . Display format (text/font, graphic, table, lists, object
embedding).
a. Use best commercial practices.
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