Category: Useful Information

2.2 Billion people worldwide have some sort of visual impairment. So the financial organisations realising the blind communities struggle with identification of cards and there orientation is a real step to inclusivity, by making them accessible. Therefore giving the visually impaired their independence to deal with their own finances.

My cash cards each have a different tactile part of the cards design to let visually impaired and blind people know the orientation of the card, where the card would need to be inserted or tapped at the chip end.

3 little raised tactile dots for the Halifax card and a crescent shaped carved indent for Monzo. So they both have different types of tactile designs so I can differentiate between the two when my eyesight progresses fully.

I received my new Halifax card today after putting it in a safe place in my home 🤦🏼‍♀️ because I went away and only took my monzo holiday cash card with me. I can’t find it… Yet.

So this new one has the raised dots on. The old one didn’t.

Well done to these 2 banks for making this inclusion into a seeing world and making things a little easier, that really don’t take much doing really. Many others do the same and with so many of us with sight problems, we really need to be inclusive with everything as much as we can so we have a level playing field. We live in this world too.

PD 1 A Blue Halifax bank card and a neon bright orange Monzo card, rest on a cream coloured purse with a gold letter C.

PD 2 A close up of a blue Halifax bank card and a neon orange Monzo card showing the 3 raised dots on the blue card and the crescent shaped indent on the orange one.