Taking precautions: Digital receipts

For better or for worse, they are here to stay and now as someone with a vision impairment I need to find ways to deal with them.

I cannot create digital receipts of my own. That is, to take a picture of a paper receipt and then email it to the requester. This means that I would need to ask a sighted friend to do this and there goes my privacy and my independence is now out the window.

In like manner, whenever a digital receipt is sent to me I have to face certain challenges.  For starters screen readers are unable to read images so if it is an image then I am in trouble.  Or if it is a scanned copy then the same challenge arises.

What to do?  I can probably use my scanner to read it.  That is, I would first need to print it and then use my scanner.  I just need to ensure that the receipt has been printed.

Ah yes!  That's technology for you!

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A continuous challenge: Checking on my digital clock

I can only tell you that checking on my digital clock is probably one of the most difficult challenges for me.

You see, in former times whenever I had a clock that was either not a talking one or one that I could not see, I used to remove the front cover and voila!  I could feel the hands and the hours and minutes by ascertaining the position of the hands. What I discovered was that there were dots to represent hours and minutes when I removed the front cover and boy did that make me so happy.

Since the entry of the digital clock, this is no longer an option for me. No more cover for me to remove.  So now what do I do?  Not much choice but to ask for sighted assistance.

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Not my favourite thing: Turning the clocks forward

This is probably one of my least favourite tasks to do because each time we need to turn the clocks forward I need to seek sighted assistance to do so. 

It is the case with all of my digital clocks because they are not talking clocks.  They all chime and this is great but there is no way for me to set and reset them because they do not speak.  So I have to grin and bear it whenever it comes to moving the clocks back and forward. 

Thank goodness for my neighbour Sandra and my mom.  Maybe some day someone will develop a speaking option for digital clocks or maybe there is already something out there and I am not aware.

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Appliances Are a Challenge

There used to be a time when I as a blind person was able to navigate the buttons on the panels of my appliances without having to ask for sighted assistance.  Buttons and knobs on washers and dryers were big enough for me to feel and touch, you could set levels of water and temperatures by counting off the clicks, and you could do other things by simply memorizing how many clicks to the left or right, etc.

 

A few months ago, I had to replace my washer and dryer and thank goodness I was able to find a small appliance store that sold washers and dryers with manageable buttons.  Many of the appliances today are dominated by touch screens and digital displays and this makes life more difficult for someone who is unable to see.  Some appliances even have lights to indicate certain things and this too is not very good for a blind person.

 

In the good old days, I only had to ask for sighted assistance once when I was learning the position of the buttons but all this has changed.  I know, we are now in the digital age and that can't be helped but how I wish that someone can come along and develop a gadget for blind persons to use with digital displays and touch screens.  Thank goodness I have a talking microwave but my toaster oven is a challenge for me.

 

I'm Donna J. Jodhan your friendly accessibility advocate wishing you a terrific day and urging you to go out there and help educate the rest of the world about the challenges that blind persons face when it comes to appliances with digital displays and touch screens.  Visit www.maxiaids.com to learn more.

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