[nabs-l] Accessible Currency

[T. Joseph Carter]

Arielle,

I heard many Federationists say, during the ACB lawsuit, that 
changing the money to be identified by us would cost blind people 
jobs by causing sighted people to think that we couldn’t handle the 
most basic tasks involved in business, such as sorting and 
identifying money.

Quite the contrary, I said: A money supply readily identifiable by 
the blind will OPEN jobs, because we no longer have to explain to the 
sighted public how we do it.  They can see the identification 
mechanism for themselves.  They aren’t going to hire us to do 
something they cannot imagine us doing.  That is why it’s so 
important for us to be willing to discuss in an interview HOW we do 
things.

Only twice have I ever had someone short change me.  Once was a 
deliberate effort, and it got the cashier fired.  The other I believe 
to have been a simple miscount.

Joseph


On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:13:30PM -0600, Arielle Silverman wrote:
>Hi all,
>I have only been cheated with money once in my life, and that was by a
>blind person, who got possession of my wallet and replaced a $20 bill
>with a $1. In theory it can happen, but in practice being cheated in
>business transactions is quite rare.
>For the most part I feel that the cost of making money identifiable by
>the blind outweighs the benefit. The only argument I would make for
>accessible currency is that it might allow more blind people to obtain
>employment as cashiers, bank tellers, etc. I am curious to know if any
>blind people currently work in these kinds of vocations and, if so,
>how they handle the need to identify bills. While I imagine that in
>banks or cash registers bills are pre-sorted, I would think that many
>employers would be unwilling to hire someone who is unable to verify
>that they are being given the right bills.
>Thoughts?
>Arielle