[Blindtlk] Launches EyeNoteâ„¢App to Help the Blind and Visually Impaired Denominate US Currency

[Chris Nusbaum]

 ---- Original Message ------
From: "Sean Whalen" <smwhalenpsp at gmail.com
Subject: [nabs-l] FW: Bureau of Engraving and Printing Launches 
EyeNoteâ„¢App to Help the Blind and Visually Impaired Denominate 
US Currency
Date sent: Tue, 17 May 2011 14:57:31 -0500

Aren’t there already iPhone apps that do this?



From: White House Disability Group 
<disability at messages.whitehouse.gov

Date: May 17, 2011 3:45:19 PM EDT

To: cmacdonald at linchpinstrategies.com

Subject: Bureau of Engraving and Printing Launches EyeNoteâ„¢App 
to Help the Blind and Visually Impaired Denominate US Currency

Reply-To: White House Disability Group 
<disability at messages.whitehouse.gov





Bureau of Engraving and Printing Launches EyeNoteâ„¢App

to Help the Blind and Visually Impaired Denominate US Currency



The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) has developed a free 
downloadable application (app) to assist the blind and visually 
impaired denominate US currency.  The app is called EyeNoteâ„¢.  
EyeNoteâ„¢ is a mobile device app designed for Apple iPhone (3G, 
3Gs, 4), and the 4th Generation iPod Touch and iPad2 platforms, 
and is available through the Apple iTunes App Store.



EyeNoteâ„¢ uses image recognition technology to determine a 
note’s denomination.  The mobile device’s camera requires 51 
percent of a note’s scanned image, front or back, to process.  
In a matter of seconds, EyeNoteâ„¢ can provide an audible or 
vibrating response, and can denominate all Federal Reserve notes 
issued since 1996.  Free downloads will be available whenever new 
US currency designs are introduced.  Research indicates that more 
than 100,000 blind and visually impaired individuals could 
currently own an Apple iPhone.



The EyeNoteTM app is one of a variety of measures the government 
is working to deploy to assist the visually impaired community to 
denominate currency, as proposed in a recent Federal Register 
notice.  These measures include implementing a Currency Reader 
Program whereby a United States resident, who is blind or 
visually impaired, may obtain a coupon that can be applied toward 
the purchase of a device to denominate United States currency; 
continuing to add large high contrast numerals and different 
background colors to redesigned currency; and, raised tactile 
features may be added to redesigned currency, which would provide 
users with a means of identifying each denomination via touch.



More information is available at http://www.eyenote.gov/ or 
through email at eyenote at bep.gov.



More information can be found also at: 
http://www.bep.treas.gov/uscurrency/meaningfulaccess  
<http://www.bep.treas.gov/uscurrency/meaningfulaccess

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