Blindness in the Mainstream This Week

ABC’s "What Would You Do?" aired a segment on accessible currency.

As a way to bring attention to the difficulties US currency presents to people who are blind, the producers decided to stage a store clerk purposely cheating two separate customers who were blind. The question, "What would you do?" applied to both, would you inform the customer or would you sit back and watch as someone unknowingly was ripped off.

 

So, what would YOU do?

 

NPR Discusses Accessible gadgets

NPR does a good job introducing some technologies currently available  to help people with various disabilities.

 

Read: "What’s Accessible? Gadgets For The Blind And Deaf"

Posted by T.Reid on Jan 31st, 2009 and is filed under Accessibility, Accessible Currency, Blind Tech, Blindness, Media.

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