Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 References
3 Definitions and abbreviations
  3.1 Definitions
  3.2 Abbreviations
4 Background
  4.1 The machine readable telephone card
  4.2 User problems with Machine Readable Cards
5 A tactile identifier for Machine Readable Cards
  5.1 Position of the tactile identifier
  5.2 Tactile/visual conspicuity of the tactile identifier
  5.3 Existing standards for a tactile identifier
  5.4 Technical constraints of the tactile identifier
6 Requirements of a common tactile identifier
7 Recommendation
  7.1 Description of the tactile identifier
Annex A: User testing of tactile identifiers on machine
         readable ID-1 cards
      A.1 Summary
      A.2 Introduction
      A.3 Method and results
      A.4 Discussion of the results
      A.5 Discussion of visually impaired users
      A.6 Conclusions
Annex B: Bibliography
History

Abstract

Purpose is to demonstrate that a tactile identifier on telephone prepayment cards (and on all other machine readable ID-1 cards) is essential for blind and visually impaired people and for older people to orientate the cards quickly and correctly.

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Published
Document Type	Standard
Status	Current
Publisher	European Telecommunications Standards Institute
Pages
ISBN
Committee	HF 2