Sep 302022
 

I’ve always wondered how blind people in the US handle paper money. All our bills are the same size and are essentially featureless from a tactile sense. A $1 would be indistinguishable from a $20 or a $100 bill.

Technology to the rescue!

I suppose someone will get snippy about “mutilating” bills by adding braille bumps to them. But then, someone *always* gets offended by some damn thing or other. I can’t imagine it would be all that hard to add tactile features to bills. raised bumps might get squished over time, but braille punched-out dots seem workable. But embedded bumps are probably best.

 Posted by at 6:40 pm