Sarah Russell

@blindbat84@disabled.social

So, please boost this for reach but I need some good banking apps that do good check scanning for blind/low vision users that use Voiceover or Talkback primarily. I'm looking for good verbal prompts for alignment, or front/back notifications or even if it tells you if it is upside down or not. This should apply to phone based apps only and only ones that do this well. Please give me the name and accessibility features of the check scanning bits please. This is work adjacent for me. Thanks!

February 24, 2026 at 7:57:08 PM

I have Capital One and it does this.

It will tell you if your check is upside down and stuff and tell you if you are lined up okay?

It has never told me it was upside down so I think it just takes that into account. Maybe I don't know it's hard for me to use because I need to have one hand on the phone and one hand on the display and it is honestly just easier to get help with that but I do know it does give you some feedback and it will tell you when it has successfully taken the picture and to turn it over.

Good enough! Thanks, I DMed you more info on why. But this is agood start, thanks so much! Aluso you are a good example for why this kind of tech is not great for certain groups applying this to other things not just checks but other things you may need to verify.

Also, I want to mention that it does require that you enter the amount on the check and if you can't see, you are going to have to get help from someone who can see to check that amount unless you can do it through a portal online or you know the amount already because someone told you. So this is not foolproof.

That thankfully isn't a requirement In eed for this particular thing. This is mostly looking at similar scope rathert han exactness. Just like tools for scanning items in general for verification purposes. But good to know about htis.

I don't know of any banking app that detects the amount automaticaly. All apps I've seen and worked with for accessibility purposes require that the user put in the actual check amount. It may not seem logical, but they have a good compliance reason for it.

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