Wow - leave the one button mouse alone

[Peter M. Bagnall]

I thought a few ATMs actually do have audio, but it's done via an induction 
loop, rather like the system for hearing aid listeners. I assume that blind 
users can get the little gadget to be able to hear what it's saying. I may 
have got the wrong end of the stick but I'm sure I saw something about that 
somewhere!

And despite braille being silly on a drive up atm, I'm sure its cheaper to 
make them all the same that way, rather than having a braille set and a non 
braille set.

Pete

At 11:08 21/4/02 -0700, you wrote:
>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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Peter M. Bagnall
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