[Blindtlk] credit card readers help please

[Peter Donahue]

Good morning Julie and everyone,

     Have you checked out Square Inc? One of the teams that operates 
some of the meetings we attend uses Square Inc. to process credit cards. 
I believe their card reader must be connected to a smartphone or a 
tablet to connect to the Internet in order to process the transactions. 
The neat thing about Square Inc is that if customers have an e-mail 
address Square will send them a transaction receipt which can be read by 
screen readers. The Square Inc Program also allows one to sign the 
customer receipt using their fingers on a tablet. A number of our cab 
drivers also use this service and from the customer's viewpoint it's 
very accessible. I can't say much concerning accessibility where the 
merchant portal is concerned. This is something to investigate.

Peter Donahue



Julie J. via blindtlk wrote:
> I tried a headphone splitter.  It doesn't work.  The Pay Pal Here ap 
> gives me a message to unplug my headphones immediately.  I get this 
> same message if I plug the headphones in directly.
>
> I don't have a blue tooth headset or speaker.  So trying that will 
> have to wait a bit.
>
> Does anyone know of a different way to be able to process credit card 
> transactions using a phone or tablet?   I know there are a lot of 
> different companies that offer this service.  If someone knows of one 
> that is accessible, I would appreciate very much the name of it.
>
> Thanks!
> Julie
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> -----Original Message----- From: Jason Polansky via blindtlk
> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 12:42 PM
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> Cc: Jason Polansky
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] credit card readers help please
>
> You may also want to try a headphone splitter.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Feb 19, 2016, at 1:17 PM, Jude DaShiell via blindtlk 
>> <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Have you tried pairing a bluetooth speaker with your iPhone or a 
>> bluetooth headset before plugging in that credit card reader?  I 
>> think one or both may solve this problem for you.
>>
>>> On Fri, 19 Feb 2016, Julie J. via blindtlk wrote:
>>>
>>> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 12:15:50
>>> From: Julie J. via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>>> To: Blind Talk Mailing List <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>>> Cc: Julie J. <julielj at neb.rr.com>
>>> Subject: [Blindtlk] credit card readers help please
>>> Is anyone familiar with the Pay Pal Here ap?  It allows you to be 
>>> able to accept payments in person by accepting credit cards.   So 
>>> you run the ap on your phone or iPad with the credit card reader 
>>> plugged into your device.   Very awesome for things like craft 
>>> shows, garage sales or other similar temporary location type of sales.
>>> I have checked out the ap and it appears to be accessible, although 
>>> I have not tried every single feature.  I received my credit card 
>>> reader today.  However it plugs into the audio jack of my iPad.  So 
>>> when I plug it in, Voice Over no longer uses the speaker. Voice Over 
>>> is still running and working, I just can?t hear it because it?s 
>>> sending the audio to the headphone jack, which of course is being 
>>> used by the card reader.
>>>
>>> Any ideas on what I can do to get this to work?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Julie
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