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Court: Paper money discriminates against the blind

post #1 of 6
5/22/08 at 8:59am
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WASHINGTON - Close your eyes, reach into your wallet and try to distinguish between a $1 bill and a $5 bill. Impossible? It's also discriminatory, a federal appeals court says.

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post #2 of 6
5/22/08 at 9:37am

Re: Court: Paper money discriminates against the blind

I think it'd be a great idea. Other countries use currency of differieng sizes - I don't understand what the big deal is about doing it.
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post #3 of 6
5/22/08 at 10:36am

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I spent some time in a country that had currency like that. It was really weird at first but you get used to it. But the changes in size would have to be significant enough to be able to tell a real difference. That means the $1 would have to be really small, the $5 bigger, the $10 even bigger, etc, and something like the $100 really big. That part seems kind of impractical.

Maybe they could try hole punching Braille numbers into the bills, or something else like that.

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post #4 of 6
5/22/08 at 1:33pm

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I think having raised numbers or braille of some type would be the best solution. Different sized bills are going to cause tons of problems. The was one thing I hated when I lived in Europe. I'm a stickler about allmy bills facing the same way and being nice and neat in my wallet. You just can't do that with different sized bills.
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post #5 of 6
5/22/08 at 2:34pm

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i believe that our Canadian bills have some blind assistance on them. but i can 't remember what. something with the holigrams i think. all the money is the same size but they all feel different.
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post #6 of 6
5/22/08 at 4:49pm

Re: Court: Paper money discriminates against the blind

It seems like they could do some type of modification in the way the bills feel rather than changing their sizes.
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