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Aspects of a User Interface

The CUA elements of IBM’s SAA includes standards for the following aspects of interface behavior. You should strive for consistency with these:

• panel management
• activity management
• keyboard layout and usage
• panel (display) interaction
• selection action
• messages and prompts
• color and emphasis
• help
• national language support
• terminology for end users