How much scientific and technological fruit does the handicapped eat?

Read a Reuters news report, "The Deaf crowd Advocates for the blind group, and called on Apple to do more" (Advocates for extrudes, deaf want far from Apple), the following:

The 74-year (United States) Association of the Blind (the National Federation of the Extrudes, hereinafter referred to as NFB) recently decided to put pressure on Apple to look at the app Store application review process Develop the relevant policy of accessibility (accessibility) and increase its weight continuously.

Before we talk about accessibility, let's consider a question: how do you think blind or deaf people use the IPhone?

Friends who are confident in their English can read this first week of me and the iphone, and I am also happy to share a touch of Week:

Austin Seraphin is a blind man and his mother went to At&t to try and buy the IPhone. During the first week of use, he asked his mother to send him a text message. When the IPhone is received, it automatically reads the text content through the VoiceOver function in the accessbility. Not much of a touch? Imagine, you are 25 years old, born blind, the sweet messages sent by relatives or men and women have always been read to you. Do you feel anything?

This is the power to make good use of technology, and they never expected it to be this day before using the IPhone. The app Store has really improved their lives, such as a color identifier application that serves as the Austin's third eye-it can call the phone's camera, recognize the color of the external environment, and shout it through the voice system.

Say back to accessibility, auxiliary function. See for yourself? The order to open is: Set---> Universal---> Accessibility features. Starting with the IPhone 3GS and ipod touch 3, Apple has added a relatively comprehensive visual and hearing-impaired support-a change in the lives of many blind, single deaf, weakness and color-blind people.

Apple is a great company with excellent products, unique design tastes and a humanistic concern that Steve Jobs has advocated. Accessibility is a comprehensive embodiment of these aspects. But we must also understand that this is inseparable from the perseverance of some good people and actors.

As early as 2008, NFB was doing Apple's work, making the latter start adding subtitles (caption) and other accessibility features to ITunes. Since then, these features have been logged into the IPhone, ipod Touch, IPad, Apple TV. But there is a problem, they are only as the attributes of Apple's own devices and systems, not to be a third-party application of development standards--app Store the number of applications and download extremely large. Therefore, in this kind of auxiliary function, increase, then benefit the people, lack, then lost all.

In the case of emotion, it is unreasonable to ignore the technical and user experience of the disabled group. Developers to make products, not only to serve the general user's goods, but also should become a work with humanistic care-if you do not want to talk about feelings, the "moral integrity" of the word is also immune, it is a product from the perspective of the perfect to consider this matter, support accessibility what's wrong? What are the costs of accessing more users and opening up new areas of entrepreneurship? Does it hurt to improve your image and add sparkle?

Of course, there are no mandatory rules. Do or not do, only in your reading, perhaps there will not be too many people to pay you for a few dollars, and even probably not many people notice your contribution, but this is worth thinking.

Within the community of the blind, there has also been a debate about coercion or autonomy. Michael Hingson, the board member of NFB California branch, believes that legislation is the only possible solution, and said: "If Apple still does not modify the app Store audit system, it will take action." "It is worth mentioning, Hingson himself is a blind person, perhaps his statement can represent a part of the helpless voice."

Chris Maury Another point: "I prefer the carrot rather than the stick – rather than forcing developers to add this function, remind them that it is doing good and has access to a whole new set of users." Don't make it a matter of obeying the law and avoiding legal risk. "Maury operates conversant Labs to develop applications for visually impaired users.

The speed of the development of science and technology and the richness of the fruits of science and technology are not needless to me. I feel obligated to point out that, at present, there is a disabled person in every 10 people in the world, and 85.02 million per cent of the disabled in our country, and the population of such a large scale has not enjoyed the right to share the fruits of social development equally.

Thankfully and admirably, some people are determined to reverse this situation, and the Shenzhen information-barrier society is an example--its secretary general Liang (public number: ZZYOUCI) is leading a dynamic team that hopes to integrate technology with people with disabilities and accelerate the construction of China's network barrier-free environment.

Barrier-free technology, disability technology, assistive technology, for many people, such a word may be quite unfamiliar, it doesn't matter, it would be better to know more. Incidentally, Apple has prepared a lot of learning resources for assistive technology.

You may not have many disabled friends around you, perhaps you have never used accessbility, did not touch Braille, but this will not hinder you to understand this need to focus on and help the group. The next time you want to go to the bathroom, please get up from the computer, close your eyes and walk to the bathroom, what does it feel like?