Comments on: How To (Re)Design an ATM http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/16886 Feel Smart Again Sun, 8 Nov 2009 14:39:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Jenny http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/16886/comment-page-1#comment-85804 Jenny Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:40:59 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/16886#comment-85804 I have one hang-up with the touch-screen format: it is not accessible for the visually impaired (the industry that I work in). I know, I know, we've all heard the "why does the drive-up ATM have Braille on it?" Well, although a blind or visually impaired person may hand their check card to a friend to use, they are less likely to hand it to the cab driver. Rather, they will be accessing the ATM from the back seat. I have one hang-up with the touch-screen format: it is not accessible for the visually impaired (the industry that I work in). I know, I know, we’ve all heard the “why does the drive-up ATM have Braille on it?” Well, although a blind or visually impaired person may hand their check card to a friend to use, they are less likely to hand it to the cab driver. Rather, they will be accessing the ATM from the back seat.

]]> By: Paula http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/16886/comment-page-1#comment-85776 Paula Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:56:48 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/16886#comment-85776 Banks - I couldn't care less about how many buttons I have to push - just make it so that I can *reach* the buttons. Not everyone owns a monster-size SUV, you know. I don't have a little sports car, just a normal size vehicle. And I (unfortunately) don't have Go-Go Gadget arms. Banks –
I couldn’t care less about how many buttons I have to push – just make it so that I can *reach* the buttons. Not everyone owns a monster-size SUV, you know. I don’t have a little sports car, just a normal size vehicle. And I (unfortunately) don’t have Go-Go Gadget arms.

]]> By: Robert http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/16886/comment-page-1#comment-85745 Robert Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:17:14 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/16886#comment-85745 Dear Banks: The last thing I did at an ATM has the highest chance of being the NEXT thing I do at an ATM. About 90% of my transaction with ATM is to get the same amount of money out each time, but yet I have keep punching the same inane buttons each time. Grrrrr. Dear Banks:

The last thing I did at an ATM has the highest chance of being the NEXT thing I do at an ATM. About 90% of my transaction with ATM is to get the same amount of money out each time, but yet I have keep punching the same inane buttons each time. Grrrrr.

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