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Re: U.S. money is inaccessible to the blind

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From: Gareth Dart
Date: Nov 29, 2006 10:20AM

UK notes would have been more 'accessible' than they are, it seems, save that the RNIB, of all people, advised against braille.

Quoted from the Bank of England website at http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/about/faqs.htm

Q What is on a banknote to help blind and partially sighted people identify the different denominations?
A Each denomination is a different size; the greater the value the larger the note. So a