Access World Talking ATM Article
Posted on January 10, 2003
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This page has an article that was written by Lainey Feingold for Access World. Access World is a magazine of the American Foundation for the Blind. The article is about the details of Talking ATMs. Talking ATMs let blind people use an ATM without help. Talking ATMs speak instructions that sighted people would see on a screen. There is a jack to plug in a headset and other features.
This article that Lainey wrote about Talking ATMs was published in January, 2003 in AccessWorld(R), a publication of the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB). Part 2 of this Article, titled “You Can Bank on It, Part 2: Advocacy, Outreach, and Legal Authority for Talking ATMs,” can be found in the March, 2003 issue of Access World.
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You Can Bank on It: Features, Technology, and Locations of Talking ATMs
In September 1969, the first Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) was installed in the Long Island branch of Chemical Bank. Thirty years later and almost 10 years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), blind people and others who could not read standard print still could not reliably [...]