There is no hindrance, technology lights up for them

According to the statistics,

my country's current 27.8 million hearing disabled people

17.31 million people with obstacles

The obstruction of the visual or auditory blocking them, trapped in the "island" of information

We are accustomed to daily life and work

But it is their dream expectations

I have a friend of visually impaired engineers.

That's right, the engineer sitting in front of the computer in front of us, and the visually impaired of the screen in our impression.

The opportunity to meet him was that in 2021, the HDC conference organized by Huawei had a small experience activity, allowing people to blindly enter the black room and experience the lives of the obstacle group. Try to find the sofa in the darkness and try to watch the dialogue in the TV series.

In the darkness of those fifteen minutes, I was ashamed to think that paying attention to the field of science and technology for five or six years, I have never thought of it before, and the hearing impairment and visually impaired group will also use mobile phones.

In an era when digital technology is closely linked to life, they certainly need to use mobile phones.

From Meeting Stars to Incrementing Energy

My friend told me that digital technology brings far more to the visually impaired group than people think.

He first came into contact with the computer and the Internet during his youth, and it was out of control since then.

In the past, I wanted to read and learn knowledge. I could only use the barren documents in the library in the small town. In the hands of ordinary people's hands, the general books that are opened in the hands of the ordinary people become thick and large after being transformed into a blind text. It can cover the entire table, as if you are saying that you can get knowledge is a little slower and difficult than ordinary people.

But on the Internet, there are countless resources. By screening software and blind keyboards, knowledge and information are like a big bang, leaving the starlight for visually impaired people. Many visually obstacles and hearing impaired people are interested in programming because they have come into contact with the Internet and opened a wider world.

The mobile Internet, which is more closely connected with life services, is a great ability to increase the visually impaired.

In the past, shopping alone is not an easy thing for those visually impaired, because when paying, carefully distinguish the banknotes of different places in the hand. With mobile payment, you only need to sweep gently. Sators who travel, buy train tickets, and roadside are unimaginable difficulties in the past, and now they can be carried out on their mobile phones.

Most people's awareness of the relationship between obstacles and digital technology stays here and stays on the word "energy".

The visually impaired "can" use the mobile phone to do something that could not be done in the past, and digital technology enhanced the "energy" power of the visually impaired.

Ask for every mobile Internet practitioner, those product managers who need to give programmers one by one. Those who work hard for data growth every day, they will never use "can use" to define their products.

It's just the bottom line for easy use.

Just use it, not enough

For visually impaired, with the screen reading function as auxiliary, is the software on the mobile phone easy to use?

The answer is obviously no.

First of all, the seemingly simple screen reading function actually requires the three parties of ordinary APPs, mobile phone systems and screen software. The three characters are intertwined, and the probability of BUG has also increased by several times. In particular, it supports the screen reading function. It requires the APP to follow a certain design specification, otherwise it will be more difficult to apply screen reading software.

At the same time, the development trend of mobile Internet content is pictureization and video. Screen reading software can broadcast text information, but it will fail when encountering pictures. Many of the information obtained by the visually obtained by the visually impaired users is incomplete.

Finally, the development of the phone as the hardware itself can sometimes bother the visually impaired users. For example, starting a few years ago, mobile phones have canceled the physical home key. For ordinary people, it is a major progress of full -screen. Visual disabled users must find a fingerprint unlocking area on the screen more laboriously.

The same is true of the problems encountered by the hearing -impaired group. Although the hearing -impaired group can interact with the mobile phone, whenever you encounter an electricity, you can only hang up and send SMS communication. Some software also launched the voice -to -text function, which can often not be turned on in the background, so one mobile phone is used to use voice to text, a mobile phone for text to transfer voice ...

There are also physical disorders and elderly people. Digital products have changed their lives, and experience is far from good.

Sometimes, the "easy use" of the software is not realized, and the "use" can also be reversed.

My friend told me that some software will adapt to the barrier -free function in a certain version, but it is likely that the next version will be "forgot". Therefore, most of the obstacle users dare not update the software, because it cannot be returned after the update version. If the new version of the barrier -free function support is low, they are likely to completely unable to use the products they have been familiar with.

Friends say that for obstacles, APP updates are like a "blind box", and they can't know what they are before opening.

Even if there may be your paid account in that software, a song list you have carefully collected, and many fans waiting for you to update. An accidentally touched the update key, and a wall was born before the familiar digital life.

People standing at the entrance of the maze

Digital technology is for obstacle groups, just like one person standing at the entrance of the maze. Even though there are heavy walls in front, he pays more attention to the light of exports: there are endless knowledge, rich social entertainment, and more ability to enhance themselves.

So although I bumped into the wall, I went.

My friend of my visually impaired engineer is a person who wants to lead more people through the maze.

There are many hearing impairment and visually impaired engineers, just like him, these people who have been exposed to the Internet and opened a wider world, are using the construction of information -free construction as a career, tire tirelessly to test the APP and hardware, and give the most authentic as a visually impaired user. Use experience and propose optimization solutions. This is not an easy way, but fortunately they do not lack their peers.

We have been discussing APPs and discussing the support of barrier -free mobile phones, but technology companies are not passively accepted. Many companies have taken the initiative to find them, hoping to contribute to the development of information barrier -free development.

Huawei is one of the typical one.

Permanent, torch, horn: how technology companies cross the obstacle -free maze

In 2019, Huawei launched the "Tech4ALL Digital tolerance" action plan, and information barrier -free has also become a key area for Tech4all.

We can take Huawei as an example to see what technology companies can do in information -free construction?

The first is the "penetrating force" that can break the rules.

In the past, we all thought that screening software could only be at a loss when encountering pictures and videos, but the emergence of new technologies changed all of this. Image recognition, OCR text recognition, voice recognition ... Huawei's AI capabilities can make information transform in various media, describe the information in the picture, or convert the sound in the video to text to adapt to the visually impaired, to adapt to the visually impaired Different needs of hearing impaired people.

These capabilities are still crossing their mobile phones and reaching the real world.

The maze that originally thought to be around the map can now be more efficiently penetrated.

The second is the "torch" as the main body.

Finally, there is a "horn sound" with extensive release capabilities.

Open technology and build platforms to release capabilities to more partners are the current development trend of technology companies. These capabilities are also inflowing into other developers who work hard for obstacles.

An app called "listening to no hindrance" can be transformed in real time, and the hand language translation of live -action connection functions to help hearing impaired communicating with the hearing to listeners on various occasions. This software uses Huawei Cloud's AI technology to achieve voice recognition and generation. Huawei's engineers met their technical solutions to meet many barrier -free product developers to help them obtain technical capabilities, optimize products, and accelerate development.

In addition, a real -time voice transfer text and sign language animation translation software named "translation", the developer is a post -95s hearing -impaired person. He felt the difficulty of the hearing impaired, and decided to join the information -free field of information to help more people build a better communication experience.

A horn sounded, and there would be countless people moved forward until they arrived at the exit of the long maze.

Believe in potential, beautiful and naturally happened

Since knowing friends with this visually impaired engineer last year, I have been paying attention to the topic of information -free information this year.

For a year, I concluded that people's attention to the field of science and technology is often in a "technical narrative". The research institutions have issued the papers and the models of which company's model running. In terms of information -free relationship, technology is not the most important in the goodness of the welfare of tens of millions of obstacles.

After leaving "technical narrative", we don't seem to know what technology companies can do. In the action of Huawei Tech4all, some directions may be found.

First of all, you must find the perspective of the action to land.

My friend told me that the visually impaired development test has a natural advantage, because they better understand the habits of obstacles and have the perspective of the visually impaired. The perspective that many wealthy people have never thought of are important for the obstacle group.

In order to truly understand the needs of visually impaired users, Huawei has held dozens of offline "Tucao Conferences". A face -to -face discussion with the visually impaired users listened to their opinions on their own products.

In the digital world, we can easily fall into the blind spots of "data -driven", thinking that the choice of more people should be the choice of products and technology. The obstacle group also has the right to have its own coordinates in the digital world, change perspective, and see them.

To get a perspective, what needs to be "accompanied" with the user.

It is not enough to communicate enough. If you want to further break the obstacles, you need more patience.

During the year of attention to barrier -free, I have heard a very interesting deed: In order to understand the needs of obstacles, the engineer spent several days with users, observed the bit by bit in their work and life, and discovered the product to discover the products of the product. To be optimized points.

This method sounds less efficient, but in the digital world, sometimes the patience that needs to be slowed down can make more people walk together.

Supporting patience is the spiritual core of digital tolerance.

All the advocates and actions of Huawei Tech4all revolves around a kernel -not allowed anyone to leave behind in the digital world. Everyone has the right to benefit from digital technology, and the world should be born more beautiful due to digital technology.

What should that beautiful world look like?

Perhaps I was concerned about information -free this year, all I saw:

I used to see grandparents chatting with smart speakers in the nursing home, I saw the visually impaired developers playing the "chicken" game developed by myself, and saw the hearing impaired watching the AI ​​subtitles in the video, showing a pleasant smile. ... Number tolerance not only allows everyone to keep up with the torrent of technology, but also believes that everyone has the potential to create beautiful.

Look, as long as the digital technology is given to them, it will happen beautifully.Of course, there are still many shortcomings in China ’s information -free construction.The long distance between "use" and "easy use" requires many people to take mountains and wading together to continuously optimize and reproduce the current successful cases.

Many people think that information -free is a public welfare proposition that only serves the well -being of the obstacle group.

In fact, each of us may encounter "obstacles" in our lives. When we go closer, we may become a brief visual impairment because of the momentary eye surgery;, Turning into hearing disorders.Pay attention to informationlessness, tolerance for numbers, and in order to let ourselves fall behind in the digital world.

Finally, I want to give everyone a word from my friends of my visually impaired engineer.

When referring to the people who work hard for the welfare of the obstacle, he said this:

"I love this world, and these cute and love colleagues."

We use digital tolerance to give the world beauty, and the world returns to us to be cute.

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