[nabs-l] Business cards

[Emily Pennington]

Hi, Kaiti.
How ironic that you brought this up; my dad and I were just talking about
this very issue. He says he has an app through which he can take a picture
of a business card, and it automatically adds a new contact on his phone.
The name of the app escapes me at the moment, and I still need to explore it
to see how accessible it is, but if it would work, that would be great. I,
too, am getting increasing amounts of business cards -- especially at career
fairs, Meet the Firm events, and the like.

Hope this helps (sort of),
Emily

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kaiti Shelton
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 10:47 AM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: [nabs-l] Business cards

Hi all,

I've been getting a lot of business cards lately, and I anticipate I will
only get more as I start doing field experience and attending more
professional conferences.  I always feel weird accepting business cards
because knowing me, if something isn't either electronic or braille I'm
going to lose it, or put it in my wallet and have no clue what it is when I
get it out later.  I try to take down notes in my notetaker whenever I can,
but sometimes people don't understand why I want to write down their email
address or something when they could just give me their business card.  (It
happens, even with the cane).
For example, in my university library the other day I was working with a
reference specialist to access some databases.  I was having a lot of
trouble because something eeither with Jaws, my internet explorer settings,
or both is causing accessibility issues.  He knew I used jaws, but at the
end he was like, "Have a business card and email me so we can set up a time
to fix this.  My address is on the card."

Has anyone come up with a good way to manage these cards, or to work around
taking the cards at all in lieu of electronic notation of the information
without being rude or too assertive?

--
Kaiti

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