Digital Readouts No Good for Me

When it comes to digital readouts, it is a big problem for someone who does not have enough vision to red screens, particularly those tiny ones.  So, we have to depend on sighted assistance to do so.  With more and more manufacturers using digital readouts to enhance their products and as a means for users to communicate with their products, it is becoming more and more difficult for us to find accessible products.

 

Another thing that is happening to us is that more and more stores are using digital screens when it comes to having customers perform their credit card transactions.  All well and good in the name of evolving technology but where does it leave those of us who are unable to work with digital readouts because we are either blind or unable to use our hands to touch the screens?  In so many words, it leaves us up a creek without a paddle. 

 

We need to lobby manufacturers to come up with alternatives to digital readouts for us and we need to push or rather convince them that this is in their best interest to do so.  I think that they would benefit from going to the following websites in order to learn more; www.nfb.org, www.aph.org, and www.rnib.org.

 

I'm Donna J. Jodhan your friendly accessibility advocate wishing you a terrific day and asking you to go out there and share my blogs with the rest of the world.