[blindlaw] American currency and other accessibility issues.

[Joshua E. Saunders]

Mike, it is certainly true that some things which should be accessible under
law take a long time to implement.  However if you don't start you'll never
get anywhere.

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From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Mike Freeman
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 10:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] American currency and other accessibility issues.

I agree with you. However, it will probably take about as long as it has 
taken for ATM machines to be accessible (and there are plenty of examples of

those which are still not accessible despite Federal regulations mandating 
otherwise).

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joshua E. Saunders" <joshuasaunders at sbcglobal.net>
To: <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 5:24 PM
Subject: [blindlaw] American currency and other accessibility issues.


I have been listening to the debate on both sides of the issue, with regards
to currency accessibility.  The Federation has a point in that there could
be a backlash if the public comes to resent blind people for demanding too
many accommodations.  At the same time I don't think we should simply make
the assumption that that is the attitude most cited people will have.  Cited
people who I've talked to have seen it as a positive thing.  It's possible
that because I am blind they feel like they have to respond in this way.  I
haven't gotten any sense of deceptiveness in people's responses however.



Since we have been talking about accessibility issues I wanted to raise one
which I have been thinking about.  Touch screens are ubiquitous parts of the
ATM machines at supermarkets.  There also present as a part of many other
common machines such as the automatic ticket machines for Amtra I found
myself in a very uncomfortable situation when I had to hand my credit card
to a total stranger in order to have my previously purchased ticket
extracted from the machine.  Now I simply do not by my tickets in advance,
so that I don't have to use the machine.  k.  I wanted people 's thoughts on
whether we should work to have this technology made more accessible.  To me
it seems just as important as making web sites accessible, because of how
common the technology has become.,




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