Should we look at raising our voices against this arbitrary and insensitive move of the Govt? Sorry that Prashant will have to go back to the drawing board.
Best, George ----- Original Message ----- From: "Prashant Ranjan Verma" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 9:47 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Accessible Coin in India The recent release of smaller sizes of coins has indeed foiled the coin identification feature of my Rupee Checker device. If there is no noticeable diference in dimensions of different coins it becomes very difficult for the visually impaired and the print impaired in general including the illiterate. The BEST Way to Read and Publish: http://www.daisy.org/get-involved -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Asudani, Rajesh Sent: 19 December 2011 11:17 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AI] Accessible Coin in India Good Asif that you have brought this issue of inaccessible coins, (as well as our existence), to the attention of governor. I vividly remember in my childhood all the indian coins used to be perfectly accessible, even down to the five paisa coin. So, they say progress is not always good. I know in US dollar notes are not accessible as they all are of similar size. Hope it won't be copied in India. I have time and again brought to the notice of higher authorities the futility of so-called Braille accessibility feature they claim to have introduced on five hundred rupee note etc. Other such mindless accessibility issue which readily comes to mind is the introduction of vitrified tiles in almost all the posh buildings, even on bridges of railway stations, irrespective of the fact that such tiles are too slippery and may cause numerous falls not only of persons with disabilities but any person in general. The things become more difficult for a disabled person, of course. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mohammed Asif Iqbal Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 2:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AI] Accessible Coin in India Dear all, Trust all is well at your end. It was my good fortune to interact with RBI governor, Sri D Subbarao last Friday at leadership summit. I did ask him a question "why are coins which are so difficult to identify by visually impaired or blind citizens of this country as they are all same size? Why does system discriminate against us? Why are we not consulted on design of the same prior to launching it in the economy?" His reply was that this question was raised to him earlier and they will certainly do something about it. I later on had an opportunity to spend 30 minutes with him over cup of tea and actually demonstrated how difficult it was to identify Rs. 1 coin, Rs. 2 coin and I actually have to take sighted help to identify them. I leverage on my US experience where coins such as penny, dime and quarter can easily be identified based on their size variance. I did inform him about our two beloved friends harish and Rajesh and he was not aware that visually impaired folks even work for him. He did take two visiting cards from me and I was under the impression that nothing is going to happen this time. Same principal would apply "out of sight is out of mind". Today I got a call from General manager RBI Calcutta inviting me for a meeting next week to discuss this in details. Let's keep our finger across and hope something arise out of this. Thanks and will keep you posted. 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