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81890 helps to smooth the "internet tactile paving"

Time:2024-04-09     Click:

"Hi there, I can't find my WeChat. Could you please help me find it?" Not long ago, Mr. Ni, visually impaired, came to the 81890 Aid Service Center. As soon as he entered, he anxiously took out his mobile phone to seek help.

It turned out that Mr. Ni's WeChat app on his mobile phone was mistakenly deleted due to long pressing on the main page with his fingers, and he felt anxious and uneasy because he was not clear about the specific location of the phone's "download mall" and could not use WeChat for a long time. After learning about the situation, Xu Weijun, who was on duty, immediately helped Mr. Ni solve his problem.


"Smartphones have become an important part of the lives of the middle-aged and the young who are visually impaired." The person in charge of the 81890 Platform said that in order to better enable visually impaired friends to enjoy the technological dividend, as early as in 2016, the Center promoted the use of smartphones among blind friends and established a WeChat group called "Trendsetters" for visually impaired friends, which then contribute to the launch of the online blind assistance project "e-Road with Light".

In the group, blind friends initiate online help, volunteers claim and answer questions online, and assist them through video connections, voice calls, and other means to check the picture verification code and online shopping item graphics on their phones, helping them remotely find household items placed in corners, medicine boxes that cannot be classified, etc.. As of now, more than 120 seemingly small but easily causing great inconvenience in daily life have been successfully solved through the WeChat group.


"Visually impaired people have their own way of thinking and use habits, and have not received special training, which has caused great inconvenience in the use of the Internet. Now, we have recruited more and more enthusiastic young people to join the group of volunteers, carrying out activities such as 'I am your eye' and 'Your Internet Helper' to help others." A relevant person from 81890 said.