Why would a drive thru ATM have brail? A blind person shouln’d be driving..?
November 14, 2011 - 3:42 am
Your government at work!
A federal law passed several years ago required ATM machines to provide equal access to disabled persons. The law doesn’t differentiate between drive-up or walk-up machines, so now ALL ATMs have to have braille letters available on the key pads.
November 14th, 2011 at 9:29 am
if the blind person can drive
they can use atm freely.
without forces, they have right to what they want to do
unless if he lives in US.
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November 14th, 2011 at 9:52 am
The blind person would have a driver than he would go up to the ATM and use it.
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November 14th, 2011 at 10:40 am
LOL! I’ve noticed that too. Cracks me up! Probably has more to do with lawyers than common sense!
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November 14th, 2011 at 11:28 am
lol I was asking myself the same question today at the atm.
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November 14th, 2011 at 12:12 pm
It is because of accessibility laws. It is required to have them built that way, since they dont know where the atm will be.
A blind person cannot drive, but they can use an atm thanks to these laws, silly as the are or at least seem.
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November 14th, 2011 at 1:00 pm
It is for blind passengers.
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November 14th, 2011 at 1:17 pm
It’s cheaper to build them all the same, and now they are universal and can be installed anywhere.
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November 14th, 2011 at 1:33 pm
They only need to make one keypad for all ATM machines. Having two separate production lines to manufacture ATM machines (or at least just the keypad) for walk-up installations and one for drive-up installations is dumb and expensive.
I could ask the same question in a different way. Why do they have braille on the ATM keypads. Sighted people can’t read braille.
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November 14th, 2011 at 1:53 pm
Your government at work!
A federal law passed several years ago required ATM machines to provide equal access to disabled persons. The law doesn’t differentiate between drive-up or walk-up machines, so now ALL ATMs have to have braille letters available on the key pads.
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November 14th, 2011 at 2:06 pm
I don’t feel I should have to answer this because it’s, literally, a dumb question…with all due respect of course. But here it goes, ATM’s, much like everything else that is manufactured, is done on a line. It is much cheaper to have one assembly line that produces an item identically, than it is to make two different items on two different lines. It’s all about money…which comes from time…which I’m wasting answering this question. That’ll be $2.50 please.
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November 14th, 2011 at 2:14 pm
they just do that to not discriminate agent the blind.
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November 14th, 2011 at 2:19 pm
The blind person probably has someone driving them to the ATM and helping them to use it.
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Common Sense
November 14th, 2011 at 3:02 pm
me and my brother thought the same thing.. the only answer we could come up with is that they have to do it because of ADA requirements.
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