Over the years I developed an interest for accessible currency, which in a nutshell means currency that’s usable for people with all kinds of disabilities. You can read in more detail about accessible currency here.
One of my most popular posts is how blind people can recognize paper money, which also has a video to illustrate some of the concepts.
The first thought that comes to mind about accessible currency is what is the solution to make currency available for all? One idea is electronic payments. But will electronic payments solve the accessible currency problem? Or could QR codes be the answer?
In general, there isn’t a good place to find information about accessible currency, so I had to be a little creative about how to find news about accessible currency.
There is certainly a chance that this problem will not be solved in the next few decades, thus I looked at existing solutions. One method is automated currency recognition. One example is a solution India implemented using a currency recognition app. But this is only a partial solution for the problem in India, in an earlier post I wrote about what the real problem is, and unfortunately it hasn’t changed yet.
There are other solutions for currency recognition, I reviewed the Note Teller 2, which was one of the first widely used devices in the US and Canada. While researching currency recognizers, I started to collect them. This is a short review of my currency identifier collection.
I often receive the question about why there isn’t braille on currency. While currency should be accessible for blind people, I wrote about why braille on money isn’t the answer.
In several countries, people filed lawsuits when their currency wasn’t accessible to all. I discussed the Brazilian accessible currency lawsuit, and analyzed what the problem was, even though Brazil does have tactile marks on their currency.