To create a more inclusive digital world, Huawei HDC allows developers to experience a new world of information accessibility

"Please wear a blindfold. How can you accurately find the staff named 'Ahua' next to you without assistance?"

"Suppose a takeaway call comes at this moment, but you can't hear it. I can't speak, what should I do?"

"You are wearing boxing gloves, and a message has come over. How can you reply to an emergency message without taking off your gloves?"

At the "Barrier-free Dark Experience Hall" event at the 2022 Huawei HDC Conference, there was an immersive level-breaking game, which allowed us to see how "disabled groups" use information accessibility technology , the possibility of integrating into the information society and living and working freely and equally like normal people.

The "Barrier-free Dark Experience Hall" is a space created by Huawei for developers and media to experience the daily life of "disabled people". The experience hall has three experience levels with different scenes, simulating the visual impairment, The daily work and life of people with hearing impairments and physical disabilities. Here, participants can immersively experience what the world is like for "disabled groups" and how Huawei Information Accessibility helps them open up the audio-visual aspects of their lives through innovative technology. barrier.

"Please put on the blindfold and start the first challenge." Under the leadership of the visually impaired guide, you will enter a completely dark room, where guests will participate You need to complete three challenges: find the switch and turn on the light, find a person named "Ahua" in white clothes, and read the password on the piece of paper in Ahua's hand. These tasks completely replicate several typical difficult scenarios faced by visually impaired people in daily life, namely finding objects, identifying, and reading information, such as finding a book, identifying the color of an object, and reading the text on a bus stop sign. Information etc. But in fact, in a completely dark world, these "little things" have become extremely difficult for normal people participating in the activities.

However, with the help of Huawei's Xiaoyi smart voice assistant, participants only need to say "Xiaoyi, Xiaoyi, turn on the lights" and the house will be lit; through Huawei's smart vision function, use The mobile phone camera scans the environment, and the mobile phone voice can describe and broadcast "A male wearing white clothes has been detected, located in the center of the screen." Based on this, "Ahua" can be quickly found; and the mobile phone can also accurately broadcast the card in Ahua's hand. The information on "There are 7 days in a week". The text recognition function can help visually impaired people accurately "see" important text information in daily life such as instructions, bus stop signs, tickets, etc., and help visually impaired users avoid similar problems caused by not seeing. It happens that you read the product label and accidentally eat expired food.

Visually accessible technology represented by smart vision, text recognition, travel assistance, photo assistance, and Xiaoyi smart voice assistant has solved the problems in the life and work of the visually impaired. So, what about the hearing-impaired people? How to solve the difficulty? Coming to the second level of the "Barrier-free Dark Experience Hall", guests participating in the experience can experience how Huawei's hearing accessibility technology can help the hearing-impaired hear accurately and communicate smoothly.

In the second level, participants will be asked to put on sound-isolating headphones, then answer the phone, and read the "password" on the phone. Because I was wearing sound-isolating headphones, I couldn't hear the sound on the phone at all. This scene simulates the scene when hearing-impaired people answer calls and watch videos without subtitles in daily life. Due to their inability to hear, hearing-impaired people cannot receive information in sounds and cannot communicate with other people. During the on-site experience, it was generally difficult for participants to read the "password" because they could not hear it. However, under the prompts of the guide, when the challenger answered the call using "Xiaoyi Call", the voice of the incoming call was converted into text. information, and successfully obtained the "password". "Xiaoyi Call" meets the needs of hearing-impaired people to listen to audio information and communicate with others, and provides great convenience for the daily work and life of hearing-impaired people.

After the hearing impairment experience, the third level scene is about physical impairment. The challenger was asked to wear a pair of boxing gloves to open the "password" sent via text message on the phone. Due to wearing thick boxing gloves, the participants were completely unable to perform any touch and input operations, and could not open the text message at all. Interface, attempts all ended in failure. This scene well simulates the inconveniences and difficulties faced by people with upper limb disabilities when using mobile phones in daily life.

However, the “Visual and Speakable” function in Huawei’s barrier-free solution perfectly solves the inconvenience of people with physical disabilities using the machine. In the "Visible and Speakable" mode, users can give instructions to the phone through voice and use voice to control the phone, such as "open text messages", "read Ahua's information", etc. Users with physical disabilities do not need to pick up the phone You can perform smooth and fast control.

In fact, these accessibility features developed by Huawei are not just for "disability groups". In addition to the needs of people with disabilities, each of us may also face many temporary obstacles in our daily lives. For example, during the recovery period after eye surgery, when answering the phone in a noisy environment, when the hands are injured or wet; even if there are no temporary obstacles, each of us will gradually age one day, with hearing and vision deteriorating, and fingers losing weight. Inflexible controls, etc., all require these accessibility features to assist our work and life.

"This dark experience event is very meaningful. Before this, I never knew what the world was like for hearing-impaired and visually impaired friends, nor could I understand the various difficulties they faced. This information from Huawei is useless The disability function is not only powerful, but also comprehensive, and can very effectively solve the practical problems of people with disabilities." After participating in this event, many participants had empathetic experiences with the daily lives of people with disabilities.

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