Nov 292006
A federal judge has ruled that the Treasury Department must make U.S. currency more accessible to the blind. NPR has full coverage. It’s about time. Other countries have found various ways to modify their currencies to make them easier to use for people with visual impairments. There really is no excuse for us to be lagging behind. I don’t buy the argument that changing the size of our bills would disrupt business (vending machines and cash registers are cited as examples). The countries in the euro zone seem to have managed the shift to an entirely new currency without suffering riots in the streets. Any changes made here would likely be less dramatic.
