I’ve landed, I’m now with computer, and my sleep patterns are nearly normal, but for my first post-holiday post I’m going to stick with the States. If you’ve ever been there and fumbled in your wallet for a dollar, only to bring out a $20 bill, it’ll have occurred to you that the various American bills are very difficult to distinguish from each other – they’re all green, and all the same size. It must be a nightmare for the blind, I mentioned to my cousin Cara in Vegas.

And guess what? Just before I left the US Treasury failed in its appeal against a ruling that its current practice is in breach of disability discrimination legislation, namely section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Here’s the judgment of the US Court of Appeals (DC Circuit), here’s the report in the New York Times, and here’s an NPR report to listen to.

2008-05-29T16:20:00+00:00Tags: , , , |