Every time I figure out the credit card machine at a store they change it. Read the article below about what retailers are doing to help us out. I go to Target and Staples for everything.
Prompted by changes in the law, large retailers are getting the idea about accessible services. Target and Staples stores are adding tactile keypads at all checkout counters. This will allow shoppers who are blind to independently enter personal identification numbers (PINs)—impossible with current touch screen technology. Target says all its stores, nationwide, will have the devices by the end of 2010. Staples says its stores will be outfitted by the summer of 2010. The changes follow lobbying efforts by California Council of the Blind, American Foundation for the Blind, and American Council of the Blind. The result is new California legislation requiring the keypads by the end of
2010. Wal-Mart, Rite-Aid and Trader Joe have already complied in California stores.
Lifeglow
July - August 2009, Vol. 26, No. 4
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