The case we discussed in 2006 is back in the news: the plaintiffs won, so unless this goes to the Supreme Court, US bills will have to come in different sizes, braille-embossed, punched, notched, or something. I still like graduating the lengths best, but obviously this deserves some hands-on experimentation in the hands of real blind people.
What if people took it upon themselves to punch holes in bills as they come upon them, in a neat row at one end: seven for a single, six for a deuce…one for a Franklin. I suppose some jerks would punch one hole in a single and try to pass it to a blind person, but if you didn’t know someone giving you a bill, you would have to check it with a scanner or a sighted person anyway as you do now with anything purported to be other than a single, and this would gradually make it easier for the blind to spend bills, and faster than waiting another six years for this litigation to end and the Treasury to get its act together.
