Dear Friends,
Talking ATM India website http://talkingatmindia.org today completed one year of service. This website was launched on 15 February 2014 by our moderator Harish Kotian during Access India Convention at New Delhi. This website is a voluntary effort by individuals who themselves are persons with blindness and it is dedicated to our community. Core objectives are to make available talking ATM locations in India as a single repository with easy search, advocating with banks to make available their talking ATM data in the public domain, spreading awareness and putting efforts in boosting usage of talking ATMs. Sharing few of the milestones in this one year’s journey: • Today website’s database has almost 5000 locations of talking ATMs spread across India from 8 banks. • Free Android Mobile app ‘Talking ATM locator’ developed by Sagar Sodah, our access India list member launched in November 2014. App’s database is in sync with website’s DB. • Few successful advocacy efforts are we got Citibank data published on its corporate site, got list of talking ATMs from Bank of Baroda and Corporation Bank and so on. • Resources page added on the site has almost all important circulars related to banking access, user manual, audio demos and more. • Conducted survey on talking ATM usage in August 2014 with 60% usage out of 100. • Site has 2000+ unique visitors and more than 20,000 hits since its launch. • Awareness efforts through social media Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/talkingatmindia since May 2014. Talking ATM is one such great achievement and an excellent example of technological solutions for persons with blindness as they can withdraw cash independently with security and privacy. ATM in today’s world is a very important facility for everyone and particularly for the disabled for whom visiting the banks may be difficult. Talking ATM India’s goal is to spread awareness, up-to-date information on locations and increase usage of talking ATMs in India. We are hoping to put up 10,000 talking ATM locations and newer version of mobile app coming soon. Appealing all to use talking ATM at least twice in a month. Thanks to all for your support. Warm Regards, Talking ATM India Team talkingatmin...@gmail.com Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in 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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
