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ROOTED IN RIGHTS: NCD calls for accessible dollar bills

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The National Council on Disability recent a letter to the US Department of Treasury asking that the agency move forward to make the dollar bill accessible to people with visual disabilities.  In 2008, there was a lawsuit that ruled that the current form of the dollar bill violates the Americans with Disabilities Act.  Disability advocates were told that the braille cells would be included in the redesigned ten-dollar bill, but accessibility issues seemed to have disappeared in the discussion about the bills' redesign.

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