[blindlaw] American currency and other accessibility issues.

[Joe Orozco]

    Come now Rod.  I appreciate the ironic comparison, but asking businesses 
to make their ATM machines accessible affects only one sector of the 
industry.  It does not welcome the spillover effect of changing our 
currency.  If I had to prioritize between pushing for ATM accessibility and 
currency modifications, I would totally buy into the ATM advocacy regardless 
of which organization made the push, because while there may be isolated 
incidents of people getting short changed in cash, people would have more 
personal information and more assets to lose by asking strangers to assist 
with withdrawing from the bank.  Has the ACB made such an advocacy?  I 
honestly don't know, but if it has not, I see it as an example of the more 
ground breaking position the organization could have taken.  If it has, I 
think our own side needs to join in the noise to get something changed. 
Anyway, just my thoughts.

          Joe Orozco

"The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in battle."--Military 
Basic Training
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rod Alcidonis" <roddj12 at hotmail.com>
To: "'NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List'" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] American currency and other accessibility issues.


> Joe, this would be against our policy, you have to adapt around the
> inaccessible machines and be miserable, they shouldn't be made accessible 
> to
> you buddy. You are asking the world for too much!
>
> Rod
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Joshua E. Saunders
> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 8:24 PM
> To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
> 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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