you get one and one only--or at least that was what I was told. After
that one breaks (and at some point--even with my custom designed
case--that cost another $40 US) they all do.  Then it's $120 US in
perpetuity.



On 6/10/2018 8:01 AM, Gene wrote:

Any blind person who is signed up with the Library for the Blind
program in The United States can get the unit you are talking about free.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Ron Canazzi <mailto:aa2vm@...>
*Sent:* Sunday, June 10, 2018 6:36 AM
*To:* nvda@nvda.groups.io <mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io>
*Subject:* Re: [nvda] accessible money

Yes, you can buy it for a poultry $120 US.  Just how long it will last
is anybody's guess.  Mine has lasted me 3 years so far, but in the US
more and more each year, if you cant pay, you don't play--no matter
how important the issue is.



On 6/9/2018 11:37 PM, Kevin wrote:

U.S. is accessible, there is a little device you can purchase that
you slip the end of a bill into the slot of the device.  There are
two settings you can select, identify by vibration or have what
denomination the bill is spoken to you.

You can buy this from Future Aids or Maxie Aids.

But I’m sure everyone knows this!

E-mail is golden!!!
Kevin Lee

*From: *Laurie Mehta via Groups.Io
<mailto:lauriemehta@...>
*Sent: *Saturday, June 9, 2018 7:57 PM
*To: *nvda@nvda.groups.io <mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io>
*Subject: *Re: [nvda] accessible money

Gene <gsasner@...> wrote, in part:

Even if you win, the public resentment and ridicule will create
enormous ill will toward the recipients and set the whole cause of
acceptance and integration back significantly.

Gene

---My response:

I think that this sort of reasoning insults the intelligence of
almost everyone, and it does not make sense either.

I am not worried about ill will being spread on account of me wanting
to be sure of what money I am exchanging with a business.

Canadian money and Indian money are reasonably accessible, for just
two examples I've used. There is no reason for US money to lag in
this respect.

-LM

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On Sat, 6/9/18, Gene <gsasner@...> wrote:

Subject: Re: [nvda] accessible money

To: nvda@nvda.groups.io

Date: Saturday, June 9, 2018, 1:40 PM

 But using that argument,

making money accessible

 when it may not be around much longer can be argued to be

spending a good deal

 of money to correct a problem that may not exist so it

shouldn't be done.

 After all, it would be hard to justify making a building

wheelchair accessible

 if that building were likely to be torn down in two years

and it wasn't

 providing an essential service.

Paper money is so much more

convenient than coins,

 that that is why it was adopted in the first place.

Accessibility is a

 worthy goal, but if accessibility is done at the expense of

what is generally a

 much better system of doing something for people in general,

it's a pyric

 victory.  Even if you win, the public resentment and

ridicule will create

 enormous ill will toward the recipients and set the whole

cause of acceptance

 and integration back significantly.

Gene

 ----- Original Message

-----

 From: Ron

Canazzi

 Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2018 7:02 AM

To: nvda@nvda.groups.io

 Subject: Re: [nvda] accessible

money

 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.

   Gene

   ----- Original Message -----

   From: Ron

Canazzi

   Sent: Friday, June 08, 2018 8:05 PM

   To: nvda@nvda.groups.io

   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:

     hi

     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

     thanks

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