codeforamerica / balance

A text message system for checking one's EBT card balance (SNAP benefits and more)
MIT License
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Give Texans more context about where the last 3 digits of their card are #308

Open daguar opened 9 years ago

daguar commented 9 years ago

Texas users are still having problems finding the last 3 digits of their 19-digit card # because they're weirdly located on a second row below the main 16 digits. Some sample user messages from TX:

My numbers I sent were 16 numbers but where are the 19 numbers?????? Its only has 16 digits? It's a 16 digit number

History of solutions

  • 186 customized the response to say "enter your 19-digit EBT card" but it seems this isn't clear enough to help folks.

  • 122 added a picture of the card with an annotation of where the last 3 digits are to the splash page, but it seems that that was removed in a revision — I've reopened that issue.

    Proposed solution

  • Reimplement #122 on the splash page
  • Modify the "please respond with your 19-digit EBT card" message just for Texas to say something more specific, maybe even checking to see if their previous text was 16 digits and conditionally responding for that situation