Google for the Blind?

Fun, but about as much sense as putting braille on a cash machine

lol. yes. I thought it kinda missed the point a bit too to do a braille graphic

And I remember that a bank in the UK DID have Braille on the buttons of their ATM's. Which always puzzled the shit out of me.

You know those bumps they put on the side of the road sometimes... What did you think it was for? There was already plenty of reason to put braille on drive-thru atm's.

Btw, road braille has saved my life on several occasions.

They use the same ATM machines for walk up and drive up.

OMG! Discrimination! You are insinuating that the blind can't drive? Or have bank accounts? Or spend money?????

You will hear from my high powered attorney about this! I am filing a discrimination lawsuit on behalf of all the poor oppressed blind people who have been deprived of the right to a normal life because of attitudes like this!

If we ignore the rights of the blind, next it will be the deaf, and ultimately the stupid, and then ALL of us will be in trouble!

As I said, you will be hearing from my attorney... as soon as he's released from prison. (He's the same attorney that Amy Weebler uses.)



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Haha!

Those things have woken me up more times than I care to think about after painfully dull workdays.

huh? what? Now I'm more confused. My point was this: apart from the numeric keypad, the buttons on an ATM refer dynamically to whatever options are available on the current screen. And since the options change depending on all sorts of factors - hell I don't even get the same options in the same order every time I go use one - I don't see how the hell you can track where you are or what the options are.

Just my ignorance, I'm sure. But if someone can enlighten me then that'll be one less thing I'm confused about in life

I'm sure the braille is on there because some idiots whined about discrimination without considering what they were whining about. Whiners do that a lot.

It would be kewl to see bumps come out of your monitor and be able to feel them. Maybe a primitive stuff towards petting your screen because it's like a jungle rug.

I'm pretty sure the ATMs featuring Braille are a damned good indication that rules and regulations have gotten out of hand. I mean, it isn't possible for the blind to follow the user inferfaces I've seen either.

Maybe the manufacturers are exploiting a loophole so they don't have to spend money redesigning everything.

It's probably because it's cheaper to print one set of buttons than to print a braille-less one for drive-thrus. You have a very unusual whining complex.

You didn't read the whole thread!!!

I don't have a complex, I just don't like whiners.

I've seen brailled atm's with an option for audio.

I did.

If you were trapped on a deserted island, I have a feeling that you'd entertain yourself by imagining what perils would have befallen all those whiners if they were in your situation. Those whiners wouldn't last ten minutes, would they?

How about....


Louis Braille — Date of Birth: 4 January 1809

Well not quite what you're suggesting, but you need a Braille Screen Reader.

And they do actually have ATM's with them on!

I fitted one for a friend to his PC (not hard - it plugged into the parallel port and auto setup). It's like a big slab with little pins arranged just like pixels making up characters to form the braille symbols, translating the text on the screen line by line. Kinda like this:

That makes more sense. But isn't that kinda a security risk?

And as for the ATMs

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_010.html

You have quite an imagination.

No more so than just using an ATM. There is a input plug for a hearing device and it doesn't announce your pin code out loud or the fact that you're flat broke.

I don't think it reads your code to you.

I was thinking more along the lines of getting mugged right after it announces 'you have 1200 bucks. do you require another service?'

But I figured it was what Gabe said anyway.

Sight impared and blind people can ask their bank for a set of head phones that can be plugged into the ATM and used along with the braille keys.

The reason that they have braille keys on drive up ATM's is that many sight impared people use taxi cabs to get where they need to go and those people also need cash. The drive up ATM's are used with head phones in the same manner that the walk up ATM's are used.

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Ohhhhh, I always wondered why the drive-ups had them. Der.