I'm at the ATM pulling
out some money when I notice the
Braille writing beside the buttons. Now, the standard joke is “Why do they
put Braille on drive-through ATMs?” I suspect the answer to that is it's
cheaper to make all ATMs that way, or less prone to accessibilty
issues (“I'm sorry there's no Braille, we installed the wrong
ATM”).
So this is going through my mind when I suddenly realize—how does a
blind person know which button to press? Yes, there is a keypad used to
input your PIN, but
there are also four buttons along each side of the screen used to select
which type of transaction, language selection, do you want a receipt among
other questions. And you know which button to press because the selection
is printed beside the button.
Printed.
What's the point of Braille if the only sound the ATM makes is this
beep-beep noise? There's no voice over going “To select a
withdrawl, press ‘A,’ to check your balance, press
‘B’ …”
Now that seems silly to me …
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