Does information accessibility help people with disabilities? Where is the help?

Every time someone asks me if information accessibility is valuable to the disabled, I immediately turn into a chatterbox and raise my hand to cite a lot of life examples. Here, as a blind person, I must emphasize once again that information accessibility is not helpful to the disabled, but its perfection will have a very intuitive and revolutionary impact on the lives of the disabled.

In the past, when blind people wanted to go somewhere, they usually needed someone to guide them. Even with a blind stick, he can't determine the direction of progress. He couldn't find the stop sign when he took a taxi, and he couldn't tell what car passed by when he stopped a taxi.

When information accessibility is initially integrated into the mobile Internet, blind people can navigate with a blind stick first, and also have their own poems and distant places. With the help of the mobile internet, calling a car and buying a ticket, the modern life that was originally blocked by high walls, seems to have suddenly opened a small gap and transmitted a brilliant light of integration.

In life, it was enough to cook in the past, but once they have no ability to take care of themselves, the disabled can only entrust others to take care of them. However, after information accessibility is initially integrated into the Internet, even if a person is at home, disabled people can order takeout through platforms such as Meituan Takeout, and they can also query recipes through search engines to make their own food and clothing.

For the blind, the books available for reading are very limited, and the cost of converting ordinary books into Braille is very huge, and there will be unbearable delays. When the primary form of information accessibility is integrated into the mobile internet, I can buy the electronic books I need through various channels, and I have a more convenient way to accept knowledge whether reading or marking.

I can't understand the information displayed on many labels because I can't see it. It can be integrated through computer vision. At present, I can complete the information navigation reading of restaurant ordering, medicine bottle labels and various commodities through OCR.

The maturity of information accessibility is not only reflected in life, but also changed the work and livelihood of more disabled people. In traditional cognition, when a certain physiological function is missing, it means that the ability to work is limited or completely lost, which will always be history in the context of information accessibility.

Similarly, take the visually impaired as an example: once, the blind only had fortune telling and begging, and later massage was added. Of course, you can also engage in music theory-related work, but music theory needs a certain talent, which prevents most visually impaired people from getting started. Therefore, only massage is more formal and can guarantee life. However, do you feel terrible about working in the same industry? The visually impaired realized it, but there was nothing we could do.

When information accessibility was first integrated into the Internet, everything changed. With the lowering of the learning threshold, the knowledge that can be read is infinitely broadened, and then a series of new occupations such as blind programmer, audio post-visual impairment and blind anchor have emerged. It's all produced.

The blind fundamentally changed the way of contributing value to society, and at the same time improved the quality of life. And this is a brand-new ability triggered by the initial accessibility of information.

So you say, does information accessibility help disabled people? My answer is yes, and it is equivalent to the complete subversion of the industrial revolution!