What are the main difficulties for blind people to surf the Internet? What is your solution?

Meng Yi has been blind for 35 years. "I don't remember the day when I was completely blind." He took off his sunglasses and the scar on his right eye jumped.

Lao Meng has been explaining to people in recent years: how wonderful it is for blind people to surf the Internet. There is a software that can turn things on the Internet into sounds, so that blind people can surf the Internet. At that time, Xu Zhicai, who was in charge of the establishment of the Guangxi Disabled Persons' Federation's online area for the blind, did not know how blind people accessed the Internet. After learning about this screen reading software, he understood that if blind people surf the Internet, they are actually listening to the Internet.

On March 14, thanks to the subsidy of 200,000 yuan from Guangdong Disabled Persons' Federation, eight computers dedicated to the blind were opened to the northeast corner of the electronic reading room of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Library for free.

It seems that the computers used by the blind are no different from the other 80 computers in the electronic reading room. The secret is in it-a valuable "Sunshine 3.0" software converts computer text into sound, while the blind move the cursor through the keyboard, click on the target and surf the Internet. Of course, the monitor and mouse of the blind computer are idle.

Meng Yi is obviously a network expert. He is quite skilled in shortcut key operation-he taps his finger on the keyboard a few times, starts the screen reading software of Sunshine 3.0, quickly finds IE browser on the desktop, presses Enter to open it, then presses Alt+A to enter favorites, finds "Huaxia Blind Network" in the address bar, presses Enter to log in, and presses Tab to select the link, and then enters the "user communication area" and "chat room" successively. Every step, there is a gentle mezzo-soprano guide in the headphones.

He is skilled and has the ability to debug computers in the internet field for the blind. When he meets a little problem, he will frown and say to the librarian a little angrily, "It's best not to let the discerning touch our computer."

The color world in the dark

"Mr. Nanguo" is the screen name of Meng Yi. At present, he hangs the net at home for at least 7 hours every day, and hundreds of 8-karat kraft paper braille books on his bookshelf have fallen into dust. He divided his life into two stages: before surfing the Internet and after surfing the Internet. From 1967 to 1970, Meng Yi suffered more than glaucoma and blindness: in three years, his father was arrested as a "capitalist roader" and his mother entered the May 7th Cadre School. The darkness in his eyes is getting stronger and stronger-from reading books to reading posters, to just reading headlines. In the 1970s, he went to Zhengzhou to study massage for two years. 10 years later, I studied massage and acupuncture in Changchun University for three years. Before he came to work in Nanning, he was already a famous blind massage doctor in Wuzhou, Guangxi.

Meng was transformed from the Internet and a painful life. In 2002, 48-year-old Meng Yi was transferred from Wuzhou Regional Hospital to the Massage Guidance Center for the Blind, and became an office worker from a doctor. His wife Lan Shouzhen took out a group photo-Meng Yi took a group photo with other colleagues at the Guangxi Massage Guidance Center for the Blind. Only he wore sunglasses and stood out from the crowd.

Administrative work requires him to look at materials and documents, but he can't see them. In this new work circle, Lao Meng feels lonely like a weed, sitting in the office.

"surfing the internet has really changed my old Meng." His wife Lan Shouzhen was knitting a sweater for Lao Meng and couldn't help interrupting.

Meng Yixian went to "Huaxia Blind Network", downloaded "Lin Yuan" and watched it for a month. "I can't believe there is such a good thing as the Internet in the world. I read comic books when I was a child, but later my eyes were broken and I couldn't find the blind version. "

Lao Meng, whose net name is "Mr. Nanguo", posted his own "virgin post" on the "Night Sunrise" for the blind-"A man said that his hand hurts, and I want to give him some advice. The first time I typed and posted, my hands were shaking. "

"Mr. Nanguo" was out of control-inputting Chinese and English from the Internet, downloading books and music, sending and receiving emails, scanning books into the computer to read, and upgrading the computer operating system four times by himself ... "This kind of life was unimaginable in the past." He said this sentence many times.

The website for the blind is Mr. Nanguo's main position on the Internet. "The website for the blind is a website established by the blind themselves to communicate with each other." "Mr. Nanguo" often appears in chat rooms and forums of several blind websites, talking about life, massage, computers, and sometimes singing and telling jokes with headphones. He knows that Huaxia Blind Network was founded by several students of Changchun University in 2002, and the online books in it are very famous. The chat room of Yongde Blind Network is the most popular. From Monday to Sunday, columns such as "Massage Medicine Discussion", "Beginners Garden" and "Entertainment Activities" are arranged respectively. Every night, dozens of blind people gather there to discuss a special topic.

In addition, he went to Phoenix and read Lianhe Zaobao. Learn "General Psychology" with others on the Internet and discuss issues such as "the nature of consciousness"; Look at a Dream of Red Mansions and Shanghai Baby. "In the past, I couldn't read Braille." He gave a sly smile.

When Lan Shouzhen was not around, Meng Yi touched her five senses and described to reporters with a childish expression what she had been with for 27 years: "High cheekbones, small ears and big eyes."

For the newly-built Guangxi Internet access area for the blind, Old Meng Xiang knows: How many blind people can go in and touch the keyboard to access the Internet? Lao Meng feels that he has the responsibility to let more blind people in Guangxi enjoy this freedom-he is currently the chairman of Guangxi Blind Association.

326000∶ 100

It is estimated that among the 326,000 blind people in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, only 65,438+000 people have access to the Internet. Computer for the blind is a new word for most blind people.

The computer for the blind in Guangxi Library soon became the focus of attention of the blind nearby. Liang He Wang, a blind man studying massage in Nanning, took one arm of Li (semi-blind, with a sense of light) and asked pedestrians the way to the library. When they touch the keyboard, they are gentle and solemn.

In a blind massage training class, Liang made a preliminary attempt to surf the Internet. "Being close to the network means being close to the light." Teacher Liang's words are the initial understanding of the network. The teacher asked him, "Don't blind people and deaf people have a third person to communicate with?"

"No," he thought for a long time and replied. But the teacher said, "You are wrong. I couldn't before, but now I can. As long as they are online, they can talk. "

But beautiful scenery is only beautiful scenery after all, and few blind people can afford computers and software. Liang played in front of the computer for a long time, but he couldn't spell out his hometown and name, so he had to show the blind card to the reporter.

Wang, who came with him, didn't know that blind people could read until he was blind 13. After another three years, he learned about the Internet.

For them, surfing the Internet still has a long way to go. Now, "I just want to touch it." They fondly touched these computers for four hours. Until they left, Liang only typed two irrelevant words on the computer, while Wang was disturbed by some random open software and failed to turn off his phone when he left. But when they left, they looked satisfied and happy.

Lu Tie, who attended the online training course for the blind with Liang, has been able to do many things online: preview "martial arts", listen to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, play the flute and play the erhu. The online classroom of Nanning School for the Blind and Deaf has been put into use for some time, and he can "enjoy" two computer classes every week.

"Are there any better female netizens online?" The reporter asked him, 23 years old, but he didn't answer, just turned around and smiled strangely for a while. After that, he solemnly said that in the limited online time, it was mainly to study. He added that he wanted a computer with Internet access in the future, just a computer without a monitor.