[nabs-l] money rights

[Sarah Jevnikar]

I agree with you completely, Priscilla.
This is an interesting topic. In Canada we do have some symbols to identify
money, which certainly helps, but it needs some work. First, the numbers
aren't actually on the bill - a certain number of Braille cells indicates
the denomination. These can be worn down when the bill is old too. I can
imagine the dollar bill makes things a bit more complicated - that always
confused me when I was in the States because I always thought I had more
money than I did because I had lots of bills - all singles. LOL But I guess
you guys don't have to worry about heavy change as much, without the 1- and
2-dollar coins like we have. smile
I don't see why something isn't done about your bills at all, though.
Technology is infallible as we all know, so I don't see why gadgets will
solve all the issues. I also understand American money is all one colour,
which makes it confusing for everyone, but especially those with low vision.
Each denomination of Canadian money is a different colour, and the numbers
are dark on a light background on one side, and light on a dark background
on the other side of the bill. I don't want to sound snobby or anything but
I think these adaptations are worth considering for all currency.
I hope that Obama does something about this though - it's important.
Thanks for reading this near-novel,
Sarah
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Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 11:10 PM
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Subject: [nabs-l] money rights

hey all listers,
How are you all doing.
I was googling ways of reading credit cards, and I came across this
interesting article on making accessible currency.
It appears that bush was the one giving us problems because he is found to
have appealed the jurisdiction of making it accessible providing the
argument that states that we shouldn't change the currency since we have
accessible ways of identifying money through the use of electronic gadgets.
I really think this is very unfair first of all because not all of us can
afford spending hundreds of dollars on such device.
Second of all, I am a college student who lives independently at a dorm and
everyone is not always there when I need to identify money so whenever I go
to the ATM's, I have to go with a friend to verify if the money I am getting
is a 20 and fold it along ways.
I have methods of folding money but trust me, they are not always reliable
and are not accurate because you still have to rely on someone to tell you
what it is if you forget the denomination.

I am very frustrated about this because like everyone else, I want to be
able to handle money myself and not trust other total stranger because when
it comes to money, I have some doubts about certain people these days.
We hear a lot of fraud going on, even in the news and its happening a whole
lot in food places.
beware of restaurants because some people can be very dishonest and steel
from you especially change.

this is just my personal thoughts and opinions.
anyhow, the following link is : http://www.wkms.org/programming/fuhrmann.htm

thank you very much.

Priscilla

Ps. I really hope president Obama can really change this since president
bush was greedy enough to appeal the case.
Please reply on the list with any opinions of the article.
.
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