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Valued Member
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Australian banknotes already have some tactile differential features: the clear window is a different shape on each note, and the textured pattern pressed onto it is also different. The trouble is, as would be the trouble with any tactile feature, they only work really well when the note is new. Once it becomes worn, the features get creased and flattened out, making them much harder to detect and differentiate. I'm not sure how the RBA plans to overcome this.
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Valued Member
Australia
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Firstly anything to make life easier for those with a disability is a good thing, but I was under the impression that AUS notes were different sizes specifically for this reason.
I know that US notes are all the same sizes, I think, so that blind people have to fold the notes in specific was to be able to differentiate them.
Will be interesting to see what the RBA and RAM do to aid this. Wear will be a factor I think.
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Valued Member
Australia
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Braille has numbers, so the solution is already available if additional tactile data is needed. Maybe the 13 y.o boy just hasn't felt enough notes yet due to his young age.
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Valued Member
 Australia
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The way I took the clip was that the lad came up with a new idea to make it easier for those with eye impairments to tell the difference fast and easily and the ram have agreed to implement it. So it should be interesting to see it in the near future. And means there will be a change in the notes so the old ones will come to an end to a degree.
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Valued Member
Australia
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The Reserve Bank have been talking about changing the design for a while, so they may well incorporate new ideas into the design to make it easier for blind people. The disadvantaged tend to get left behind, so I hope the changes find favour with the blind.
Getting a little off topic, some proposed new visual designs were bandied about by the RBA about a year or two ago. Remember the kind of sketchbook style using vivid colours? I'm inclined to think those designs fell flat, and they sent the artists back to the drawing board, as there was no follow up to those 'test' designs. That delay bodes well for the blind who now have a chance to add some custom features to any future plastic construction.
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Valued Member
Australia
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agenda it has been announced this is going to be incorporated in there new notes this year.
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Valued Member
Australia
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Scratch and sniff notes... lol
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Valued Member
Australia
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Now that the notes will have a difference do any of you think its a good Idea to maybe grab some of the last notes?
I know that in most cases the last of a series tends to not have much value especially compared to say the first releases, But in this case they maybe over looked as some wont realise there changing. What do you all think on this is it worth while ?.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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"... thought you might all like to comment."
Well, hurray for ANY note-issuing-authority that takes into consideration the needs of the blind.
Are there not a few in Europe who already do this? (tactile clues)
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Posted 02/19/2015 9:58 pm
