[nfb-talk] Accessible currency in the best interest of the blind?

[T. Joseph Carter]

Steve,

I certainly agree with the problems associated with the assumption that we
are owed something by society.  I don't know what started this issue, but
I took interest because now we have the opportunity to do something about
it--and the solution doesn't even seem hard or expensive.

Joseph

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 02:05:30PM -0500, Steve Jacobson wrote:
> Joe,
> 
> This is what I was trying to get at.  For years and years, we used currency as it was when the means to make it accessible was certainly available.  We are now in a 
> period when there is rapid technical change.  I have already conceeded the point that technological solutions add cost and complexity.  The question is why is this 
> issue all of a sudden a number one priority to some when we already have tools to handle this in some cases and such tools will likely improve quickly over the next 
> few years?  It also seems to me that the existence of such technology, even if it is not as convenient as built in accessibility, could in the end diminish the claims that 
> the currency is inaccessible.  And again, I think this all avoids the real question of when we insist that something has to be made accessible and when we try to 
> figure out how to handle the use of it. It doesn't matter if we all agree on accessible currency or not, there are many who simply see it as something we are owed 
> without respect to need or benefit.