5 April 2005
One of the world's leading makers of ATMs is to unveil a new cash machine prototype specially designed to aid security for the visually impaired.
Around 180 million people are likely to benefit from Diebold's new machine that should be introduced to the UK in the near future.
The move represents a response by the ATM industry to recent comments made by the World Health Organisation (WHO) about the huge number of people with sight problems that are struggling to utilise the cash machine found in garages, shops and airport retail centres.
The prototypes make use of speech recognition and are fitted with standard headphone jacks for users to insert their own headphones.
Many banks are now providing Braille features on their ATMs, although only nine per cent of blind people actually actively read Braille.
Designers hope the new ATMs could be a step on the right path to improved cash machine security for all users.
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