Difficulties regarding independence, recognition, rights, etc. is an ongoing fact of life if You are a person living with a disability.
Recently I got quite involved in the accessibility and disability rights arena.
I encountered touch screen card machines on one of my shopping trips but, dismissed it and shopped somewhere else instead but, when I received an email regarding the experience of another person, I realized that this is going to become a problem.
I quote:
My request to you then, do you have sufficient contact with the others banks mentioned above to address this matter? It simply is not acceptable that a blind person will have to be dependent on someone else to enter his / her PIN at these point of sale machines.
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Now, this is only one issue that was raised. Continue reading ABSA, joining the FNB camp of non-cooperation – not interested in the blind or visually impaired