Showing posts with label Wheel Accessible. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wheel Accessible. Show all posts

Monday, January 18, 2010

Wheel Accessible Debit Machines

My daughter and I went in to Best Buy to purchase a few movies as she is a movie buff. She gets up to the counter and the gentleman takes her debit card and then kindly points to me and asks if I can put in her information. It seems that the debit machine holder is screwed on to the counter. He apologizes that I have to assist my daughter and we discuss how this really doesn't work for more then just anyone who is in a wheelchair. Upon arriving home I ask my husband why the machines are bolted on to the counter? It seems that people are steeling the debit machines when no one at that particular station. I am told that the debit machine holds your personal information in it for a period of time and the thief is trying to get your personal information while it is still available.
What other options are out there for the consumer as well as the bank?

Saturday, January 16, 2010

A wheel family

My youngest daughter was born with severe cerebral palsy and was in a wheel chair from the age of 9 months until she passed away at the age of 10 years, 8 months and 7 days. Two years later my husband had a surgery and is in a wheel chair part time. Just over one year ago my oldest daughter was in an accident and has a quadriplegic injury and is currently in a wheel chair.
My goal over the next year especially during the winter is to make the block that I live on wheel accessible - real accessible. Our family has talked about this and it is not just those in wheel chairs that this would make a difference to but those in scooter, walkers and parents who jog with their kids in the jog stroller.

Anybody else have any of these concerns?