Should banknotes be made easier for blind and partially sighted people to read?

Yes, I do think the Treasury should be made to address this problem. It's not just the blind and visually impaired, but sometimes difficult for visitors to the country to determine which note is which. I'm not from the State, I'm in England, and our notes are of differing colours, but that still doesn't help the blind or colour-blind. We do have differing metallic strips on our notes also, but I don't think a blind person would be able to determine from those. My suggestion is that they put braille dots somewhere near one of the corners of the note, so that a blind person can feel the denominations, say, one dot for 5, 2 dots for ten, etc. That shouldn't be too difficult, but I don't know how an ATM would affect that. I think all countries ought to address this problem, because there is a great number of blind, and visually impaired people in the World, who need to be independent of others. Brightest Blessings.

Well I am a USA citizen and I think they should make the notes a different size and color. I may not be blind but there have been times when there have been mistakes because they look so much alike. If I have to use a $20 or $50 bill I always bring it to the attention of the clerk. A quick glance of a bill does not always register in the mind. Anyway we should think about them and the trouble they have with paper money. At least the coins are a little different in size so they have no problem with them. Yes, It is time for a change.

I've often thought about this myself. It has to be hard for the blind to go shopping and all and having to rely on the trust of the person they're dealing with to get the right change back in a transaction. Say you broke a $20 buying something, and you were to get $10 back, how would you know that they were actually handing them a ten dollar bill or not? It's unfortunate to think that they probably get cheated a lot due to their disability. I think it's a disservice not to make it easier for the visually impaired. The only thing is that if they made the paper money with the raised dots on it, after the bill had passed through so many hands, and been crushed in wallets, it would be virtually unreadable as the raised dots would then be flat. I think that making the bills different sizes would be a tremendous help to them. The only thing with that would be that every cash register in every store would have to be replaced to accept larger sized bills (the slots are all uniform in size to accept bills of different amounts.) It will be interesting to see how they will change the bill to make it easier for them.

In Malaysia, all the bank notes are not of the same size and all of the bank notes have brailles symbols printed on it so that the less fortunate citizens can still tell one bank note from the other. It is about time the US treasury do something about those who are special so that they would be treated just like a normal citizens.

Yes, it can be confusing the fact that our US bill currency is the same size and color. I don't see why they can't add the braille directly on bills so that a blind person who is handling money can simply feel for the braille number for a one, five twenty, and so forth or even have the currency number itself raised (embossed?) Even sighted people can be confused. Say I hand over a twenty, but for some reason the person thinks I gave them a ten...they give me change for a ten, when I have to point out, no I gave you a twenty

This is a very good and considerate idea. Actually in my country, the banknotes all made some little points on it so that blind people can recognize how much it is. It won't cost much to do so, but it will be convenient for blind people.

I do think that the American treasury should make notes that are easy for blind and partially sited people to use, it must be extremely difficult for them to know which is which. Our money has slightly raised bits on it so as blind and partially sited people can tell the difference and certain notes are bigger than others too.

I definitely feel that money should be able to be read and used by everyone. We have laws stating that business must be accessible to everyone, regardless of their disability, so why shouldn't our money be held to the same rules? I mean, do people with vision problems not spend money? Come on now.