I’m catching up on some older topics I never blogged about. This is one of my favorites.
The Consumerist posted a video of a blind user interacting with an ATM. As they said, “Overall, it seems like whoever designed the ATM didn’t ask a blind person to try it out first.”
Quotes from the video:
(Re: finding the headphone jack) “It was camoflagued, I swear it was camoflagued.”
Then the voice instructs him to press Enter on the keypad and pauses. THEN it describes the location of the enter key on the keypad.
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