Kelly,
Thank you!
Much better said than my bungled attempt!
Exactly the issue I am most concerned about!
Sincerely,
Mike Burks
-----Original Message-----
From: VICUG-L: Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kelly Pierce
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 5:21 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Check Images
Besides your issue Steve and the prospect of scanning and displaying images
at the ATM, which may happen now that increasing numbers of ATM's have color
screens and are running windows, is the use of check images on websites. In
the past few years, one very large financial institution implemented
groundbreaking technology that allows bank customers to view their cancelled
checks on the bank's website. the access solution for information on the
cancelled check not entered into the bank's database is of course for
someone to read and review the check image with the blind person either on
the phone or at a branch. As check images become more prevalent, we need to
speak up when banks replace the information they now provide about cashed
checks with the image of the check instead. it may be an issue like icons
and web pages if images are used instead of data.
Kelly
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Hoad" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: Check Images
> posting from Windsor Maine;
> Steve Hoad
>
>
> Earlier on the list someone said; " These are images of checks
> to
> speed up the process of banks transferring money to each other. It has
> nothing to do with the consumer."
> Right here, I'd like to point out that "consumers" need money to use a
> check
> and a bank.
> Continuing to quote from the previous message; " Besides, all the
> information for each
> check
> is transferred in to the bank's database for internal and customer
> access.
> The bank only accesses the image if there is a question about accuracy
> after
> the data has been processed."
> Now, to earn money, a "consumer" might even work at a bank as a customer
> service rep, a teller, a vice president, a president!
> Why would anyone argue about access to a system that might earn any
> "consumer" a living?
>
> If you limit your access, you limit mine, too. Please don't limit my
> dreams, I'd love to sit in the leather chair of the bank president...
> Just because I'm blind doesn't mean I can't do it, its the technology that
> makes the difference.
>
>
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