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"whereas you can see instantly if the money you're trying to pay with or receiving in change is the wrong colour." Now try that when you're blind.
by RockIslandLine 6y ago
"whereas you can see instantly if the money you're trying to pay with or receiving in change is the wrong colour."
Now try that when you're blind.
- predakanga 6y agoThe new polymer notes do include considerations for the vision-impaired. Check out the "tactile feature" section on the various banknotes at https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/current-banknotes https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/current-banknotes While we don't use tactile features in Australia, similar consultation went into the design of our banknotes: https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2015/mar/1.html https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2015/mar/1.html
- aplummer 6y agoIn australia the new bills do have tactile dots to distinguish them for people living with blindness. About halfway along the bottom of the new 5 you can feel it.
- tialaramex 6y agoThe vast majority of visually impaired people are not literally blind and that's really important when designing for the general population. If you force everybody whose sight has deteriorated to the point where they can't read text to resort to feeling note sizes you're missing a vast middle ground of people who'd have been served by just choosing a different colour for each denomination.