SV: SV: [governance] ISO standards

[zara]

And I think you are being unnecessarily contradictive on this issue.
Unless you yourself have a visual impairment or have close-hand knowledge,
I fail to see how you could seemingly dismiss out of hand needs that have
been expressed by this community. But since you say yourself that many
sighted people, including you, have a hard time figuring out which way the
card is supposed to be inserted, ever wondered what it must be like for
someone who can not see at all and has to figure it out in an environment
they can not see either, often unfamiliar ? Contrarily to myth, people
with visual impairments do not have a magical sixth sense. There are often
simple ways of making their lives more manageable but unfortunately, many
seem to make a mountain out of questioning current practices.


-- 
Catherine Roy
http://www.catherine-roy.net



On Thu, August 14, 2008 5:35 am, Roland Perry wrote:
> In message <3DF8101092666E4A9020D949E419EB6F027C8B21 at ensms02.iris.se>,
> at 08:41:04 on Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Kicki Nordström
> <kicki.nordstrom at srfriks.org> writes
>>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!
>
> I think you are making a mountain out of a molehill. All the cards I
> have are embossed only on the *bottom* half, so it's easy to tell which
> way round the card is. However, what people have told me off-list is
> that I'm not the only person who sometimes has trouble knowing which
> side of the card the reader wants.
>
> It's probably the "left" side most of the time, as that's where the
> "Chip" is on more modern cards.
> --
> Roland Perry
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