[optacon-l] Re: OT Accessible Point of Sale Terminals
- From: MikeD <donegan@xxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 12:50:40 -0400
The POS terminals in Canada take a card with an in-beded chip. Called a
'Chip" card.
The terminals will ask the user to insert the card in a slot in the bottom
or to 'tap' the card on the reader.
If you have to insert the card you have to enter your PIN, if you can
'tap' then you
don't have to enter anything. Your purchase is approved or not.
The 'tap' feature is available on the newer readers, usually for lower
value purchases,
typically at a coffee shop drive by, but the gas station I go to allows
gas purchases by tapping
the card, which then prints a customer receipt and a vendor copy, with
no signature required.
So Carrie this might help you. I don't know who sets the tap limit.
In the US the 'chipped' cards has barely got started, I was in the
States last summer and all
my credit card purchases had to be swiped and signed.
As for the PIN entry, I haven't seen any terminals that change the
layout to prevent others
from seeing the pin numbers typed, but there usually are small screens
around the pad to make
other seeing the numbers.
One way to prevent 'spying' would be to fake typing one or two extra
numbers, before or after
the 4 digits needed. Also use your other hand to shield the pad.
Most if not all people, I have seen look away, so as not to be seen
spying on you.
Mike Donegan, sighted friend of Charles
On 2014-04-19 12:11 AM, C. Pond wrote:
> Security indeed. When people press in their pin number and other options on
> the keypad, others can see their fingerss positions and the numberpads, and
> so there they are able to know the person's security codes and options.
> Some manufacturers try to work around this by having a touch screen, on
> which a virtual keypad changes its layout at any time throughout the
> process. So, for these two reasons at least, having earphones alone and
> speech output for the display and keypad options (or braille
> telemetry)wouldn't mean accessibility. It has been done for ATMs.
>
> Personally, I have learned kinaesthetically by default the layout and
> pattern of the several routine terminals where I mostly shop, and a few
> different ones now and then don't make a difference. The chips in the
> various consumer cards mean tighter security, and in this case therefore
> accessibility for its own sake is less critical. In this case,
> accessibility might mean accepting.
>
> If you are a merchant, you need access no other person's point of sale cards
> than your's.
>
> If nonkinaesthetic memory serves correctly, Science Products who did work in
> adapting point of sale terminals is now called Captek.
>
> Charles
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carrie Green
> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 11:54 PM
> To: Optacon List
> Subject: [optacon-l] OT Accessible Point of Sale Terminals
>
> Dear Listers,
> Thank you to those that have responded to my query. However, my point of the
> email is to actually get the point of sale developers to make their current
> point of sale terminals accessible to us now. I cannot understand why this
> cannot be done, and am willing to make an effort for us blind customers and
> merchants to do this. I am hoping to contact anyone who may have knowledge
> of any developments with any point of sale developer with regards to
> built-in accessibility via speaker/earphone jack. I am guessing my last
> email with regards to this issue was not clear enough as individuals are
> suggesting alternatives to the current POS terminal I have here at my
> business, which is great, but not the answer I'm looking for. Different
> countries have extremely high-security with regards to Point of sale
> terminals such as Canada, and going with an older machine, will not work
> with the current security technology, or work with interac debit (direct
> from bank account via client card), such
> as Square, as some will only accept credit cards or debit credit cards).
> Accessibility needs to be developed in to the machine as they are being
> developed at the factory or wherever they do such things.
>
> Hopefully I've made myself a little more understandable, and I'd be grateful
> for any information.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Carrie Green
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