[gui-talk] National Federation of the Blind Comments on Federal Court Ruling on U.S. Currency

[David Andrews]

We are the representative of more blind persons than any other group!

Dave


At 05:20 PM 11/29/2006, you wrote:
>I would have never thought that one guy could take so many inferential leaps
>and consider himself intelligent. That is the most ridiculous article I have
>ever read.
>Where and how does he come up with so many incorrect conclusions?
>And what makes the NFB think that they are my voice much less the voice of
>the nation's blind?
>They certainly aren't my representatives.
>
>
>
>Paul Henrichsen
>Paulh52 at pacbell.net
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] National Federation of the Blind Comments on
>FederalCourt Ruling on U.S. Currency
>
>I believe any time a good or service can be made accessible to us and the
>solution is not extremely burdensome, all efforts should be made to make it
>so.  As I stated in an earlier post, accessible money wasn't worth the
>expenditure of resources it probably took, but now the court has ruled in
>its favor, I don't see why other organizations for or of the blind should
>expend any of their precious resources fighting it.
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>From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
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>Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 4:53 PM
>Subject: [gui-talk] National Federation of the Blind Comments on Federal
>Court Ruling on U.S. Currency
>
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>          National Federation of the Blind Comments
>
>
>on Federal Court Ruling on U.S. Currency
>
>
>
>
>Views Effort as Dangerously Misguided
>
>
>
>Baltimore, Maryland (November 29, 2006): The National Federation of the
>Blind, the largest organization of blind persons in America and known as the
>voice of the nation's blind, criticized as dangerously misguided a federal
>court ruling saying that the design of U.S.
>currency discriminates against the blind.
>
>
>
>Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind, said:
>"The blind need jobs and real opportunities to earn money, not feel-good
>gimmicks that misinform the public about our capabilities.  Blind people
>transact business with paper money every day.  This ruling puts a roadblock
>in the way of solving the real problem, which is the seventy percent
>unemployment rate among working-age blind Americans that severely limits our
>access to cash.  The ruling will do nothing to alleviate that situation; in
>fact, it seriously endangers the ability of the blind to get jobs and
>participate fully in society.  It argues that the blind cannot handle
>currency or documents in the workplace and that virtually everything must be
>modified for the use of the blind.  An employer who believes that every
>piece of printed material in the workplace must be specially designed so
>that the blind can read it will have a strong incentive not to hire a blind
>person."
>
>
>
>Maurer went on to enumerate the real needs for access to information by the
>blind and made a distinction between those needs and the issue of
>identifying currency.  "Access to information of all kinds, such as that
>contained on Internet Web sites and in the press, is certainly critical to
>the ability of the blind to become productive members of society.  Blind
>students need educational materials in Braille and other alternative formats
>so that they can prepare for employment and ultimately earn an income for
>themselves and their families.  Given the urgent need for access to the kind
>of information that is required for success in America's information
>economy, the matter of identifying the denominations of paper bills is of
>relatively little concern."
>
>
>
>Blind people traditionally identify paper currency by folding bills of
>different denominations in different ways.  "In reality, blind people do not
>routinely find that we have been short-changed," Maurer commented.  Machines
>are readily available to identify paper money for blind people who run
>businesses or handle large amounts of cash.  "Essentially, the United States
>Treasury has been ordered by the courts to come up with a solution for a
>nonexistent problem," Maurer said.
>
>
>
>The National Federation of the Blind believes that with training and
>opportunity, blind people can compete in the world with only minor
>modifications.  The American Council of the Blind, which brought the lawsuit
>against the United States Treasury, promotes the view that the blind are
>unable to compete unless the world is modified dramatically and specifically
>for blind people, and that the blind must be made objects of care and pity
>rather than equal participants in society.
>
>
>
>John G. Paré Jr.
>Director of Public Relations
>NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND
>1800 Johnson Street
>Baltimore, Maryland  21230
>Telephone:  (410) 659-9314, ext. 2371
>Cell phone:  (410) 913-3912
>Fax:  (410) 685-5653
>Email:  jpare at nfb.org
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