That's the D.C. Court of Appeals' take on things, it seems:
WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court says paper money discriminates against blind people.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has upheld a ruling that could force the U.S. to redesign its money so blind people can distinguish between values.
This is the
inevitable result of our
[Ed.:—"almost"] twenty years of ADA-based obsession in making life "accessible" for those with disabilities. As the public, via Congressional legislation, began
demanding that private enterprises bend over backwards to improve "access" to their facilities for the disabled, the bar of what "access" is has continually been lowered. And since nobody from "the public" has really raised much of a complaint about the massive increase in costs that this legislation has incurred on businesses nationwide, it's only natural that "the public" would expect that
everything should be changed to make life "easy" for the handicapped.
After all, changes that the Government mandates upon us
never cost a thing, do they?
Of course, the saddest thing about this whole episode is that even
staunch conservatives can't seem to recognize how destructive this continuing trend is. If this didn't stop with
Congressionally-mandated curb ramps, and it didn't stop with
Judicially-mandated bathroom stalls, where
will this mandatory appropriation end?
Will 100% of our economy still prove not to be enough when it comes to "improving" accessibility in American public life?
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Comments:
When the curb cuts became standard for sidewalks there was a problem. Seeing eye dogs were trained to stop at drop-offs over an inch or so. So the new cuts meant to acomodate wheelchairs created a hazard for the blind.