[nabs-l] Business cards

[David Andrews]

The least disruptive thing is to take the card and use a human 
reader, later on, to extract the information.

Dave

At 09:47 AM 2/3/2014, you wrote:
>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