The new disabled railcard proposed changes

I’ve been listening to the government proposals to get railcard users to scan or enter railcard number. I think there’s a serious flaw here. Trying to insert numbers or similar will be extremely difficult for those with disabilities which make these things more difficult.

Currently, I don’t see how these barcodes can be scanned, if the current railcard don’t have the ability to be scanned. In my opinion these railcards should be made to operate like a bus pass when it’s placed on a reader. The same technology should be used. So these cards are touched where on virtually all machines have, the contactless card readers. This would be fully accessible. From what I have read, there could be a discrimination issue if you have to touch a screen to enter details.

In my opinion, they should be read like contactless card readers. This could help catch railcard abusers who haven’t scanned the card for their journey.