Kerryn Gunness <k_gunness@...>
thank you all for your input in this
money issue
someone mentioned a money identifier device, if so,
which one we in trinidad should use and how to allow a money identifier to
recognise trinidad and tobago currency
also i did not no the US and
phillipeens did not have accessible currency? hmmm
thankfully canada and singapore is on par with
accessibility for their currency
i fully agree not everyone has a smart
phone
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, June 9, 2018 2:26
PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] accessible
money
When I order things like pizza or a sandwich from places like Dominos, I
use cash. I don't think too many people are writing checks anymore because now
they can pay bills online. I still pay my rent by check but we do have the
option to pay it online here if we choose to.
On 6/9/2018 11:19 AM, JM Casey wrote:
I think physical cash money will be around for a
very long time yet. Even though it’s true some places are trying to go
cash-free, I still see places both here in Canada and in the uS that are
cash only. They just prefer it that way, and they have their reasons. I’m
mostly for the progress of technology and convenience but I, too, prefer
cash for a lot of things. But, I guess we will see how things go. I
understand that some countries have already mostly made a transition to
being cash-free, so maybe, indeed, it is only a matter of time.
Well, we wouldn't have to learn any more than 5 more coins. They
could be differently shaped for ease of accessibility. As far as the
jingling, to be honest, less and less people use real money any more.
So this may become a moot point anyway. For example, we are getting a
group of Starbucks's restaurants locally in the Buffalo, New York area that
will accept nothing but credit or debit cards. So I wonder how long there
will actually be any so called legal tender any more anyway.
On 6/8/2018 11:03 PM, Gene wrote:
It isn't reasonable to ask that switching to coins be
done.
I'll use American denominations in examples since I
don't know your denominations. Who is going to be willing to carry
nothing but coins? If I pay for something with a ten dollar coin,
I'm not going to want to get four coins for dollars and two quarters, a
dime and a nickel back. If I pay for something with a ten dollar
coin and I'm owed eight dollars and twenty cents, I am not going to want
to receive a five dollar coin, three one dollar coins and two dimes.
People aren't going to walk around with lots of heavy coins jingling in
their pockets and wearing out the material in their clothes.
and think of all the different coins you would have to
learn. The penny, nickel, dime, quarter, dollar, five dollar, ten,
twenty, fifty, assuming you never have a higher denomination.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2018 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] accessible
money
Hi Kerryn,
If you can convince the powers that be in Trinidad to switch to all
coinage rather than paper money, that would be the ideal thing to
do. Most blind people here in the United States have no difficulty
with coinage. The pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters are all
differently rimmed and of different sizes and weights. In the United
States, we like our paper money. There was great resistance to any
change for large denominations than quarters. However in a smaller
country like Trinidad, you might have less resistance. Good
luck.
On 6/8/2018 8:29 PM, Kerryn Gunness via Groups.Io
wrote:
we in trinidad would like to make our money
accessible to our blind or visually impaired persons
what guidelines we should work with as to approach
the powers that be, in our meeting on tuesday 12th june, in having
this done, in terms of technology, tack tile immages etc
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