[optacon-l] Re: OT: Accessible Point of Sale Terminals
- From: "Nick Dotson" <nickdotson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 20:56:31 -0500
I used to use an accessible Discover Talking Terminal, 1989-96, which w as
a wonderful kludge between a normal Credit card Terminal and a horrible
Accent hardware speech synthesizer... It did AMEX, VISA, MASTERCARD and of
course, DISCOVER cards. Maybe somewhere I can find something in Braille
which will give you a starting point to search for the terminal to see if
anyone is still making it available... It had a receipt printer which
worked with the normal tape for use with regular terminals, with copies for
vendor, bank, end-user Etc...
But, I'd be willing to bet there is a PC-based terminal program which could
be used with a printer which could use that carbon-based tape, which could
be screen reader accessible.
-----Original Message-----
From: optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 10:28 AM
To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: OT: Accessible Point of Sale Terminals
I asked on another list. There was some interest, but no one knew of an
accessible POS machine. If you figure something out, there may be a market.
The only suggestion someone had was that the iphone has an app to take
credit cards called Square.
Tracy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carrie Green" <midorikeri@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Optacon List" <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 10:42 AM
Subject: [optacon-l] OT: Accessible Point of Sale Terminals
> Dear Fellow Listers,
>
>
> This is off topic, but I think it is an important topic, which as a blind
> merchant I wish to do something about.
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> Here in Canada, point of Sale (POS) terminals are pretty much the norm for
> processing payments for all sorts of merchandise. I have one here at my
> home-based massage therapy clinic, and would love to hear your opinions on
> your thoughts about accessibility or the lack there of. Also, if anyone
> knows of anyone that is working with point of sale providers to make them
> accessible from both the customer and merchant point of view, can you
> please let me know? I do not want to re-invent the wheel if someone has
> started this process already.
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> Thank you so much for your time in reading this off-topic posting.
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> All the best!
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> Carrie Green
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