how can blind people in USA recognize dollar bills?

Answer 1

According to a blind website:

Coins such as nickels, pennies, dimes, and quarters are easy to tell apart. They all are different sizes, and quarters and dimes have ridges around them, while pennies and nickels are smooth. There are many ways that paper money—like one, five, ten, or twenty dollar bills—can be identified. Some blind people like to keep different bills in separate places in their wallets, especially if it is a larger bill that they perhaps do not often carry with them. The most common way to tell paper money apart is to fold the bills in different ways. Each person will have his or her own way of folding them; there is no standard for everyone. Maybe a five dollar bill is folded in half the long way, and a ten dollar bill is folded in half the short way. Or maybe the ten is folded twice. A one dollar bill might be folded one way or not folded at all. Or maybe a twenty dollar bill is folded in fourths or not at all. Everyone uses his or her own methods. When we get money back from someone else, we ask which bill is which and then fold it.

Of course, other countries, like the UK, have notes of different sizes, so it is pretty easy for the blind to tell those notes apart. The new Euro notes are also different sizes.

Answer 2

You are referring to a blind person who actually gets around with no help and is independant.

They have to have help in the beginning with setting up their money so that they know what they have. They then know for instance, they have 1 100, 1 50, 4 20, 4 10, 4 5, and 10 1 dollar bills. They may even have an established relationship with their bank so the bank may already know their system and give them their money in this way all the time. They may chose to start off with the same amount every week in their wallets so as to remember it better. They are able to memorize the location in the stack by count. Then if they walk into a store and spend 26 dollars and 50 cents. They would go to the 3rd bill and the 7th bill, because they know it is a 20 and a 10. Then when they get back the 3 dollars and 50 cents, they put the 3 ones on the bottom with the ones and the change in their pocket. Then the next time they go out, they know they have 1 100, 1 50, 3 20, 3 10, 4 5s, and 13 1 dollar bills. Every time they purchase, they just remember where the bills had fallen in the pile.

Answer 3

In Malaysia the Ringgit notes have the braille system. I think that American dollars should use the system too.

Answer 4

They probably have a scanner with voice or they just use a credit card.

Answer 5

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