http://ourmoneytoo.wordpress.com/2007/04/16/the-problems-with-relying-on-a-bill-reading-machine/ Let's make U.S. paper currency safer and easier to use for everyone. Sat, 10 May 2008 03:17:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU http://ourmoneytoo.wordpress.com/2007/04/16/the-problems-with-relying-on-a-bill-reading-machine/#comment-20 Shirley Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:10:04 +0000 http://ourmoneytoo.wordpress.com/2007/04/16/the-problems-with-relying-on-a-bill-reading-machine/#comment-20 I think everyone who owns a bill reader should use it in public. Most of us have no idea what bill readers are or how to use them, what it takes to make sure you have the right amount of change. This would help educate us. I myself have never seen anyone use a Note Teller. This would bring to everyone's attention what you have to go through. Nowadays people are in a hurry and don't have time for someone to run each bill into a machine. People need to see it. Sighted people judge others by watching them. It is also easier for a sighted person to say a Note Teller should be good enough for the Blind or Visually Impaired--at least they have something--when they've never seen what it's really like to use one. If you start using them and slowing things down because the Note Teller won't read the bill and you have to put it in the machine a couple of times, sighted people will get fed up with this and then things will change. We have to interfere with their lives, show them that the note reader is not practical or functional. This is how a sighted person is going to learn how important changing the paper currency is for everyone. I wish I had one; I would use it all of the time I think everyone who owns a bill reader should use it in public. Most of us have no idea what bill readers are or how to use them, what it takes to make sure you have the right amount of change. This would help educate us. I myself have never seen anyone use a Note Teller. This would bring to everyone’s attention what you have to go through. Nowadays people are in a hurry and don’t have time for someone to run each bill into a machine. People need to see it. Sighted people judge others by watching them. It is also easier for a sighted person to say a Note Teller should be good enough for the Blind or Visually Impaired–at least they have something–when they’ve never seen what it’s really like to use one. If you start using them and slowing things down because the Note Teller won’t read the bill and you have to put it in the machine a couple of times, sighted people will get fed up with this and then things will change. We have to interfere with their lives, show them that the note reader is not practical or functional. This is how a sighted person is going to learn how important changing the paper currency is for everyone. I wish I had one; I would use it all of the time

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