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Controlling elevators
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General controls
North American Elevator Buttons made by Dover/ThyssenKrupp (with no thirteenth floor): A modern elevator has buttons to allow passengers to select the desired floor.A typical modern passenger elevator will have: passenger conveyors
Call buttons to choose a floor. Some of these may be key switches (to control access). In some elevators, certain floors are inaccessible unless one swipes a security card or enters a passcode (or both). passenger conveyors In the United States and other countries, call button text and icons are raised to allow blind users to operate the elevator; many have Braille text besides.
Door open and door close buttons to instruct the elevator to close immediately or remain open longer. In some elevators, holding the door open for too long will trigger an audible alarm.