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Guidance – Email Input and Display

Introduction

The Design Guidance – Email Input and Display document describes guidance and recommendations for the input and display of email addresses in clinical applications. It enables the email address to be entered and displayed in a complete, clear and unambiguous manner, while enhancing patient safety and clinical application usability, by:

Providing an efficient mechanism for inputting email addresses
Ensuring a consistent, clear and easily recognizable visual representation of email addresses
Conforming to international standards and best practice

Summary of Guidance

The guidance describes:

Input controls for entering email address elements
The display of fully-specified email addresses, which comprizes of a string of characters known as a local-part, followed by an ‘@’ symbol, and an Internet domain name
The formatting of email addresses
The display of email addresses as links
The provision of labels, hints, prompts and tooltips