SV: SV: SV: [governance] ISO standards

[Kicki Nordström]

Dear Roland, 

You misunderstood me, it is not the slot we need to fix  it is the card and we do not need to Braille it, only to cut one corner which we hoped to get standardised. It is not that complicated, but if you cut the card yourself, it will become invalid.

Yours
Kicki 


Kicki Nordström
Synskadades Riksförbund (SRF) 
World Blind Union (WBU)
122 88 Enskede
Sweden
Tel: +46 (0)8 399 000
Fax: +46 (0)8 725 99 20
Cell: +46 (0)70 766 18 19
E-mail: kicki.nordstrom at srfriks.org 

kicki.nordstrom at telia.com (private) 


-----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
Från: Roland Perry [mailto:roland at internetpolicyagency.com] 
Skickat: den 14 augusti 2008 18:13
Till: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Kopia: Kicki Nordström; zara
Ämne: Re: SV: SV: [governance] ISO standards

In message
<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
____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
     governance at lists.cpsr.org
To be removed from the list, send any message to:
     governance-unsubscribe at lists.cpsr.org

For all list information and functions, see:
     http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance