This question was submitted by reader Lindsey . It also may have been part of a Starburst advertising campaign in the late-1990s .
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So the visually mar can use them , of course . citizenry who are all unsighted or severely visually spoil unremarkably do n’t drive , but they might have a Quaker drive them around to run errand , or take a cab . If a blind person is a passenger in a car , they ought to be capable to take advantage of the convenience of the drive - up ATM , too .
That ’s why the Americans with Disabilities Act ’s Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings and Facilitiesrequirethe " pedagogy and all data for use " of cash machine , whether they ’re walk - up or repel - up , " be made approachable to and independently usable by person with vision impairment , " and that the machinesprovidethe visually impaired with the " same degree of privacy of stimulant and output available to all individual . " Braille on the drive - up ATM complies with the jurisprudence and allows a visually impair someone who might be in the back seat to use the simple machine just like a sighted person — independently and in private .
How would a unsighted individual use an ATM in the first office , though , if they could n’t see the on - sieve program line ?
You ’ll notice that language about availableness and useableness in the ADA guidelines is pretty obscure . Braille computer keyboard are an obvious part of approachability , but when the guideline were written , neither the banks nor the governing really knew what else to do to make the political machine blind - user - friendly . Eventually , the banks , the feds and the ATM manufacturers all agreed to leave the regulation a short hazy until they could figure something out .
The two answer most ATMs employ today are either a large block of braille that provide a user with instructions for completing transactions that they must follow very cautiously ( and go for that the teaching get updated along with the machine ’s software program ) , or a earphone manual laborer ( mark with Louis Braille ) that provides a exploiter with an audio combining weight of the on - concealment prompts .
