As one of the lawyers who has been working on the Talking ATM issue for
many years, I recommend that people interested in advocating for talking
ATMs with their local banks make a written request to the bank.  The
request should ask the bank to get back to you by a specific date as to
whether or not they plan on installing Talking ATMs and what the time
schedule is.  I am developing a sample letter that I would be happy to
share with people.  Please contact me off-list if you are interested, and
let me know in your email what bank you are interested in and what city and
state you are in.     If you make the request to the bank orally,  be sure
to get the name and position of the person you are talking with, and a date
by which the person promises to get back to you.  People can contact me
off-list for further information at  mailto:[log in to unmask]

Lainey Feingold

At 10:12 AM 5/8/02 -0500, you wrote:
>So how can I go about getting my bank Commercial Federal Bank to at
>least install a talking atm in the grocery store where I use the
>atm and where the bank branch is located?
>
>Kelly Pierce said the following
>on Tue, May 07, 2002 at 08:16:42PM -0500:
> > Here's some background about the world's first two talking automatic
> > teller machines.  today, there are several thousand machines in thirty
> > states with more machines being added weekly if not daily.  This is from
> > an industry publication.  It should be pointed out that royal Bank was
> > prompted by the efforts of blind customer Chris Stark who filed a
> > complaint with the Human rights commission in Canada.  It is a fair
> > statement to say that Royal Bank did receive community input about the
> > talking atm <grin>.
> >
> > Kelly
>
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