SV: SV: [governance] ISO standards

[Roland Perry]

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<34203.69.70.26.30.1218724093.squirrel at webmail.catherine-roy.net>, at 
10:28:13 on Thu, 14 Aug 2008, zara <ecrire at catherine-roy.net> writes

>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 ?

The point here is that even if the credit card had "This way up" 
embossed in Braille (or whatever) there is something ill-defined, 
non-intuitive, or otherwise distracting, about the slots designed to 
accept the cards, which means even people with normal sight don't always 
put the card in the right way round. It's the slots that need fixing, 
not the cards.
-- 
Roland Perry
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