The machine has only been there for three years, but it does look like an older model,and it's essentially a dumb terminal.

We must have had a blind employee here at one time (before I came to work here, obviously, or I would have known him), because one machine IT gave away back in 1995 to a local disability advocacy group was a braille fax machine.  I know because I got the person from IT and the spokesman for the advocacy group together to get free pc's for the group.  Unfortunately for the group, the company is selling its old pc's back to the manufacturers rather than declaring them salvage value losses on the books and giving them away for free.

Kat
-------Original Message-------
From: "Cleveland, Kyle E." <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 04/22/03 01:02 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: A Weird Question

>
> Kat,

I was working at a bank in the early '80s installing the (then) new ATMs.
There were only two at the time: IBM and Diebold.  Both had braille chars
on
the touchpad and buttons even then, We were told that it was to allow
blind
folk to type in their own pin, even though there is no braille output.
Entering the PIN is always the first transaction, so the blind individual
would know when to type.  You're right--it was a half-assed attempt at
accessibility and they haven't improved in 25 years.

Kyle