SV: SV: [governance] ISO standards

[Kicki Nordström]

Dear Roland, 

Well, most of my cards are also embossed, it is not that side I meant, I mean you must know in which end you need to put in your card! We also know that the embossing of the cards may not continue, and it is therefore we swish ISO to cut say the left corner of the card. But this is just one and minor standardisation we wish, another much more urgent one would be if all computer programs were equipped with synthetic speech useable for blind persons. The program that Microsoft has is far to bad to be used as the only way to navigate the computer. 

Warm regards
Kicki 


Kicki Nordström
Synskadades Riksförbund (SRF) 
World Blind Union (WBU)
122 88 Enskede
Sweden
Tel: +46 (0)8 399 000
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E-mail: kicki.nordstrom at srfriks.org 

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Från: Roland Perry [mailto:roland at internetpolicyagency.com] 
Skickat: den 13 augusti 2008 15:29
Till: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Ämne: Re: SV: [governance] ISO standards

In message <3DF8101092666E4A9020D949E419EB6F027C875C at ensms02.iris.se>,
at 09:59:12 on Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Kicki Nordström <kicki.nordstrom at srfriks.org> writes
>Right now the World Blind Union have proposed that credit cards should 
>be standardised in a way that blind people could differ the sides of 
>them and then be able to independent use them in ATM-machines etc

Over the last 30 years I've had dozens of credit card accounts, and only one actual card that didn't have embossed digits on it.

In fact, the embossing was required by the earlier "carbon paper" credit card forms, in order for a merchant to take the card details quickly, and the non-embossed card I have was deliberately different because it's for a strange account that you can't use in retail.
--
Roland Perry
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