Bitcoin 'Needs to be More Accessible for the Visually Impaired'
Bitcoin may be touted as a global and accessible currency, but some of its users are being badly underserved. Michael Staffen is a bitcoin user who is blind. He posted about his frustration with bitcoin wallets, which currently don't offer any accessibility options to visually impaired people, on reddit: "I am a fully blind person who uses a screen-reader and every bitcoin wallet I have downloaded is inaccessible to my screen-reader ... This is making me very annoyed as I am a bitcoin supporter and I have acquired my own bitcoin, I just can't goddamn use them without getting help from....
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