Wow - leave the one button mouse alone

[Shawn Dunn]

Granted, I know that there are Blind folks that are excellent at compensating, and on a stand-alone walk-up atm, have at it, doesn't bother me a bit, but the drive-up atms are the ones that sorta jerk my chain......

			--Shawn

On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:49:18 -0600
Gordon Neault <gordo-x@shaw.ca> wrote:

> I have to disagree about the braille keys.
> Blind users will have been taken to a given machine (say at the bank 
> branch they deal with or the closest one in the neighborhood) with a 
> sighted person and shown how to use the machine by touch alone. They don't 
> go around willy-nilly using every kind of ATM around, they use a specific 
> unit at a specific location. In all likelyhood, they have accounts set up 
> in such a way that on the particular machine they use, it is a button they 
> can find on the view screen, etc. They know and memorize the procedure, 
> etc. The number keys are the only part where they have to be sure they 
> enter the right amounts. They select $80 and they know they have 4 20's in 
> their hand, the blind keep track of life differently than you and I. It is 
> a mistake to think they use ATMs like the sighted do.
> 
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