[blindlaw] American currency and other accessibility issues.

[Joshua E. Saunders]

Ray, I was aware that Safeway had been sued in an attempt to make their 
ATM's more accessible.  I am glad that someone is working on this.  If there 
is anything I can do to help let me know.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Wayne" <RWayne1 at nyc.rr.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] American currency and other accessibility issues.


> We are working actively to address the problem of inaccessible ATM's,
> especially those in retail establishments.  I have observed the problem 
> with
> the Amtrak ticket machines, but I don't know what solutions might be
> possible.
> Ray
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joshua E. Saunders" <joshuasaunders at sbcglobal.net>
> To: <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 5:24 PM
> Subject: [blindlaw] American currency and other accessibility issues.
>
>
>> I have been listening to the debate on both sides of the issue, with
> regards
>> to currency accessibility.  The Federation has a point in that there 
>> could
>> be a backlash if the public comes to resent blind people for demanding 
>> too
>> many accommodations.  At the same time I don't think we should simply 
>> make
>> the assumption that that is the attitude most cited people will have.
> Cited
>> people who I've talked to have seen it as a positive thing.  It's 
>> possible
>> that because I am blind they feel like they have to respond in this way.
> I
>> haven't gotten any sense of deceptiveness in people's responses however.
>>
>>
>>
>> Since we have been talking about accessibility issues I wanted to raise
> one
>> which I have been thinking about.  Touch screens are ubiquitous parts of
> the
>> ATM machines at supermarkets.  There also present as a part of many other
>> common machines such as the automatic ticket machines for Amtra I found
>> myself in a very uncomfortable situation when I had to hand my credit 
>> card
>> to a total stranger in order to have my previously purchased ticket
>> extracted from the machine.  Now I simply do not by my tickets in 
>> advance,
>> so that I don't have to use the machine.  k.  I wanted people 's thoughts
> on
>> whether we should work to have this technology made more accessible.  To
> me
>> it seems just as important as making web sites accessible, because of how
>> common the technology has become.,
>>
>>
>
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