Patent ID: 8678275

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine that operates responsive at least in part to data read from data bearing records to cause financial transfers, including: a plurality of hardware devices, including: a card reader operative to read card data on user cards corresponding to financial accounts; an external port, wherein the external port is adapted to enable a portable device to be releasably operatively connected to the automated banking machine by a machine user in order for the user to privately hear through the portable device audible information associated with transactions carried out with the automated banking machine; at least one input device; and a display; and at least one computer in operative connection with the hardware devices, wherein the at least one computer is operative to cause the display to output at least one visual output including indicia on a background, which indicia is representative of a plurality of selectable operational options, each of which operational options the at least one computer is operatively configured to cause the automated banking machine to carry out, wherein the at least one computer is operative to detect operative connection of the portable device and the external port, wherein the at least one computer is operative responsive at least in part to the detection of the connection of the portable device and the external port, to at least one of: cause at least portions of the at least one visible output to change from relatively lower to higher visible contrast between at least portions of the indicia and the background; and output at least one user prompt through at least one of the display and the external port, wherein the at least one user prompt is indicative that at least one specified input through the at least one input device will cause a change in contrast in at least portions of the at least one visible output, and wherein the at least one computer is operative responsive at least in part to the receipt of the at least one specified input to cause at least portions of the at least one visible output to change from relatively lower to higher visible contrast between at least portions of the indicia and the background.