Judge: Make Bills Recognizable to Blind [View All]

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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/11/28/national/w132749S07.DTL

By keeping all U.S. currency the same size and texture, the government has denied blind people meaningful access to money, a federal judge said Tuesday.


U.S. District Judge James Robertson said the Treasury Department has violated the law, and he ordered the government to come up with ways for the blind to tell bills apart....