SV: SV: [governance] ISO standards

[Nyangkwe Agien Aaron]

Kicki wrote:
"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".
That is the story that would have been told since to avoid all the
tongue twisting here that have taken place here.

I do earnestly hope and believe that in a forum like this one where
people have less time to throw away, beating about the bush (as has
happened on this topic) is the easiest way to call people for  cards
playing.
But the....

Cheers
Aaron


On 8/15/08, Kicki Nordström <kicki.nordstrom at srfriks.org> wrote:
> 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
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> -----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
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