In recent months, many banks have revised their card designs to be accessible (See my earlier article about HSBC), Mastercard have joined the movement to provide more accessible and inclusive bank cards.
Banks have offered accessible alternatives for some time but adding the features to every card provides the benefits to all users while lowering costs.
Different varieties of the card, which will become available in 2022, will use physical notches to help people use touch to distinguish among them and discern the correct way to insert them into scanning machines, according to Mastercard. The debit card will have a squarelike notch, the credit card will have a rounded notch, and the prepaid card will have a triangular one.
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