Obviously if you give a blind person some literature written in Braille, they can make their way through it. But you see all sorts of things written in Braille in public places, e.g. near entrances to restrooms and the like. Today I saw a Braille writing on the bottom of a folded baby-changing table. And so on.
Question is how blind people know where the Braille writing is - or that it even exists altogether - so that they an manually read it?
Experience and sighted people being helpful.
There are specific guidelines and rules (ADA) that give distances above floor, from door latches, etc. There are probably a lot of signs that are not in compliance with these guidelines.
I saw Braille writing on My drive-up atm…how does that make any sense?(
All newly manufactured machines will have Braille as no one knows where they will wind up.
From Cecil’s column. Many thanks.
LOL I needed to 
today.
That’s right up there with: "Why don’t blind people bungee jump? Because it scares the heck out of the dogs
You know how a blind skydiver can tell he’s about to land?
The leash goes slack.
FWIW, lots of “blind” people actually can see a little bit. They just have very poor vision. Yes, there are some who can’t see anything at all, some who can see light and dark, some who can see blurry shapes, and some who can see pretty well out of one eye but nothing at all out of the other eye. So it’s easy to imagine a scenario where a person who has very poor eyesight walks up to a door, can see the fact there there’s a large rectangular sign on the door, but can’t make out the letters well enough to read the sign, so feels along the bottom edge of the sign to read the Braille version.
Also, door knobs that lead into dangerous rooms (such as mechanical closets with high voltage) are required by code to have knurling on the knob itself so that even a completely blind person will feel that there’s something different about this knob, and that alerts them to feel for the sign on the door which says “Danger. High Voltage.” in print letters and in Braille.
The real reason is that for the example signs you mentioned, they don’t know and they don’t care. The Braille is there because it is government mandated, not because it does any good.
There are blind conventions and social networks. Conventions are one place where new ADA regulations can be presented. Yes, the regulations can fall short of being useful. There used to be grooves in the concrete of wheelchair ramps. Someone asked at a couple of conventions how well the grooves worked as warning that it was a street corner, and they got the reply “what grooves?” Now we have truncated dome pads.
So a further observation…how would a blinded person be able to use a atm machine safely…how would know if they got the correct amount out of the machine?? Wouldn’t they be sitting ducks to criminal types sneaking around them…it seems so unsafe to me
Blind passenger sitting in the back seat?? I’m guessing they just mass produce the ATMs & some are placed at walk up atms & others end up in drive thrus.
When you have a question about how blind people do something, Tommy Edison is your guy. His videos are great. Here’s how he finds braille writing.
In short, it tends to be in places where he expects to be.
It’s there so blind people can use them. (You don’t have to be in the driver’s seat, or even in a car, to use a “drive-up” ATM.)
Canadian bank notes (the newish almost indestructible polymer ones) do in fact have braille bumps on them.
All ATMs are equipped with video surveillance.
This is a decades old “joke” that you plagiarized. And anyway, with about 2 seconds of thinking, the answer is obvious.
And for S&G, here’s Tommy using an ATM.
Hey…i never heard a joke about Braille on atm machines…i am just curious…i am sorry if I offended!
I watched Tommy’s video…i never knew about the headphone thing…i am impressed