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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1364998, member: 19065&quot;]Of course there are no (not usually / often) braille buttons on drive up ATMs, because the blind don&#039;t drive and if they were driving, they&#039;d be breaking the law (not licensed to drive in a visually impaired physical state) as well as would they be endangering theirs and others&#039; lives if they did attempt to drive. However, plenty of walk-up ATMs have braille and loud audio prompts as well to enable visually and hearing impaired people to use these devices. A drive up ATM would be a potentially dangerous place for a blind person to use an ATM should they be injured by a motorist in the process, therefore, no braille on drive-up ATMs. </p><p><br /></p><p>Braille (for one) should have been added to the design of SBA coin dollars when people balked about the size problem and similarity to a quarter dollar, which the blind would have easily detected in hand had the braille raised dot fonts been added. While it was a great idea for a Braille silver dollar commemorative it was pretty useless to put braille on a collectible object most people will never touch... that&#039;s the whole point of braille. One touches it to read it, so it&#039;s too little too late to have not used it earlier on coins when problems arose and contributed to the coins disuse and maybe even contributed to the coin program&#039;s termination.</p><p><br /></p><p>There have been investigations into printing notes with braille embedded in the paper fiber, but their longevity of holding up in circulation has supposedly prevented the addition of these features on notes. It seems with the polymer notes including little plastic windows, shapes in the form of numbers or recognizable to the touch contoured forms, they might be added to enable the sight impaired to feel their way around money without a need to resize the dimensions of US currency, change press sizes and paper production. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are many obstacles of course to redesigning anything, and even more so to get a design of anything to work flawlessly for everyone who uses the said thing, but its far from impossible nor improbable that it will be done eventually. Where there&#039;s demand there will be a note to meet that demand. Of course we know there&#039;s no demand not threat to the $2 notes security driving a redesign. Budgets are similarly curtailed in government at this time, contributing to delays in currency production of anything lacking necessity. </p><p><br /></p><p>Assuming a redesign can&#039;t or won&#039;t be acceptable before something has even been attempted or offered for use is completely defeatist and a narrow view of what any design change ever has or continues to be meant and intended to achieve. There is a gross tendency among collectors to laud the past and shun the present, but every change in the past was similarly due to the demands of the users of that currency in the economy, and the most important, the state of and security of the currency in a given era. Their aesthetics (a purely subjective aspect foisted on objects by discerning collectors and enthusiasts) are and will ever be, secondary to the key functions and features of the currency. It sounds blunt, but it&#039;s brutally true. Collectors don&#039;t come first in the creation of notes, never have. We can lay preference to anything, but do not fall into the trap of looking at modern currency as failing because it does not appeal to one&#039;s own aesthetic interests or preferences. It&#039;s not intended to do that, it&#039;s intended to be secure, as they are securities after all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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