Peripherals with AIR Desktop app

Hi all,
I am a college student looking to utilize air for a senior project. I plan on using HTML/CSS/AJAX to build the application and was interested in trying to used a card reader as part of the project that would send information to the application. Is Air capable of handling peripherals like this? If anyone could provide any insight, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks
-Matt

Nevermind - the txt file that contains the version number and the url for the updater has the url for my live site, not my test one, so I changed it , and it installed fine.

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