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#26 Post by minimetoo26 » Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:09 am

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minimetoo26 wrote:My ATM was just redesigned, and I used it for the first time yesterday. It took me almost a minute to find where to put the #&*%@ card in! (The slot was ringed with glowing green lights. Even an idiot could have found it. In the dark. From Outer Space. But it had moved, and that threw me off...) And they added sound effects that were really loud. And they bordered the whole shebang in bright red.

It was freaky.
You sure that wasn't a slot machine? :P
It was as blinged-out as one! And I won $200!

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#27 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:14 am

I go to the drive-up ATM near my house to get money. This drive-up ATM thoughtfully has braille markings. I just wonder how many people who need braille will be driving through the drive-up ATM.

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#28 Post by littlebeast13 » Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:18 am

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:I go to the drive-up ATM near my house to get money. This drive-up ATM thoughtfully has braille markings. I just wonder how many people who need braille will be driving through the drive-up ATM.

I would imagine MOST of the drivers who need braille would indeed be driving THROUGH the drive-up ATM....

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#29 Post by Rexer25 » Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:22 am

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:I go to the drive-up ATM near my house to get money. This drive-up ATM, thoughtfully has braille markings. I just wonder, how many people who need braille, will be driving through the drive-up ATM.
Didn't we have a similar discussion about this topic recently? And wasn't braille on drive-up ATMs mandated by the ADA law? Because the law said all ATMs had to have it?

Or am I disunremembering?
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#30 Post by earendel » Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:26 am

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:I go to the drive-up ATM near my house to get money. This drive-up ATM thoughtfully has braille markings. I just wonder how many people who need braille will be driving through the drive-up ATM.
The answer to that is Braille enables passengers in taxicabs to do their own PIN entry and such, rather than rely on a cab driver or someone else to do it for them. It permits them the same privacy that a sighted person has when using an ATM. I know this because elwing was a taxi driver for quite a few years and had blind passengers who used the ATMs in just that way.
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#31 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:31 am

earendel wrote:
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:I go to the drive-up ATM near my house to get money. This drive-up ATM thoughtfully has braille markings. I just wonder how many people who need braille will be driving through the drive-up ATM.
The answer to that is Braille enables passengers in taxicabs to do their own PIN entry and such, rather than rely on a cab driver or someone else to do it for them. It permits them the same privacy that a sighted person has when using an ATM. I know this because elwing was a taxi driver for quite a few years and had blind passengers who used the ATMs in just that way.
This totally makes sense.

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