On 1/5/12, Pradeep_banakar <pradeepsocialw...@gmail.com> wrote: > WordPress.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Nilesh Singit's Blog: Disability News Wolrdwide > To: pradeepsocialw...@gmail.com > Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 1:49 PM > Subject: [New post] ATM devised for sightless customers > > > > New post on Nilesh Singit's Blog: Disability News > Wolrdwide > > ATM devised for sightless customers > by Nilesh Singit > Bella Jaisinghani TNN > > Mumbai: A group of organizations working to > make the city disabled-friendly would have made Louis Braille proud on his > birth anniversary Wednesday. Having devised a range of software programmes > and gadgets that could be used by visually handicapped people, they unveiled > the collection at a special function in Bandra, held to mark his birthday. > Among them was an automatic teller machine (ATM) that blind people can use > to withdraw money. > > “We inaugurated an online Braille library that > allows students to download files and print them to read. There is a full > display of access technology like low-vision aids and teaching aids,” said > Sam Taraporevala, head of sociology at the Xavier’s Resource Centre for the > Visually Challenged (XRCVC). The institute partnered the National > Association of Visually Handicapped (NIVH), Dehradun, in this exhibition. > > NCR Corporation, which manufactures ATMs, > demonstrated a machine that can be used by sightless customers. “It is a > regular ATM fitted with auto-guidance software,” said Nagesh Nayak, > professional services practice manager of NCR. “One can use a regular > headphone and plug it into the jack to receive instructions and operate the > numeric keypad on the machine.” Operative buttons like ‘Enter’ and ‘Cancel’ > are embossed and codified. > > It would help to have Braille stickers affixed > to the numeric keypad, though Nayak says that just about 10% sightless > people read the script. “The raised dot on the number 5, which is a feature > of most keypads, comes in handy to detect the rest of the numbers. People > who go blind later in life are scarcely familiar with Braille, it is mostly > the young who read it,” he said. As for security, should a sighted person > catch a glimpse of the screen while a visually-challeged person is operating > the machine, all he would see is a blank screen. > > Unfortunately, banks have been slow to take to > this technology primarily for the initial investment it would entail. > “However, the Reserve Bank of India has issued guidelines to say that > one-third of all the new ATMs must be accessible to the blind,” says > Taraporevala. > > Times Of India > Nilesh Singit | January 5, 2012 at 13:49 | > Tags: Blind, UNCRPD | Categories: Accessibility, Advocacy, Disability, > Disability Studies, Technology, WCAG | URL: http://wp.me/pyosb-jo > Comment See all comments > > > > Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage > Subscriptions. > > Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your > browser: > > http://nsingit.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/atm-devised-for-sightless-customers/ > > > > > Thanks for flying with WordPress.com > > > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > dear friends,i am using this a t m already.it is drashti card of s b i which is specially for v.i.persons.it is very easy and user friendly.for this talking a.t.m. first you have to get that drashti card.
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