Thursday, August 20, 2009

Usability Testing--of currency

What could possibly make RantWoman happier? RantWoman notes for her readers' edification and consideration the following absolutely fascinating article about a recent effort to conduct usability testing of currency and blind or visually-impaired people's ability to distinguish currency based on different accessibility enhancements.

Usability Testing of Currency Features

The article has everything a true nerd could love, lots of excellent engineering verbiage, comparisons of several different systems, indications of global practices, and a website with links to make the screen fonts larger or smaller.

Okay, RantWoman is not, not, not going to get carried away extrapolating from this study yet, but she is very excited to see that it has been done and looks forward with excitement to someone finally complying with the law as confirmed by district and appellate courts about the Treasury Department's obligation to make case more accessible or at least easier to distinguish even if the other aspect of making cash more accessible, better employment statistics remains out of scope of this specific case. Sigh.

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