[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

BUMP

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

FWIW -- the new bank notes in Canada have raised dots, so that the denomination can be determined by touch (something like Braille). As before, they are also colour coded -- which helps everyone. The Bank of Canada also provides free electronic bank note readers to the blind.

Free bank note readers would be cheaper than printing new bills.

[Michael.SF.]

a ruling that could require a redesign

That seems to overstate the case. A slight modification to existing bills woulddo the trick.

In Canada the bills are stamped with a braile symbol causinbg slight bumps that can be 'read'. Seems easy enough.

[FlingWingFlyer]

He said the current practice violates the Rehabilitation Act, a law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in government programs.

Sounds like the Supreme Robed One might be heavily into recreational drugs. People have been using money for hundreds of years. This is the first time the blind people decided to bitch about it. The Supreme Robed One needs to get himself a REAL JOB and a life!

[freemike]

I'm blind and I have no fingers. I want my dollars to talk to me.

[caisson71]

Tomorrow we will hear of a "judge" ruling that our driving laws need to be changed to allow blind people to drive. I used to laugh at this stuff.

[Indy Pendance]

This has to be Greenspan's fault.

[Eagles6]

In college, I lent a blind fellow student $20 at a bar one night (actually it was a $10 bill but he didn't know the difference). The bastard never paid me back.

[soundbits]

When did the government restart to issue paper currency? All the paper money (bank notes) presently in use is issued by the Federal Reserve System of banks, not the government, although the gov. prints the paper for the banks.