What do words mean to you?
"Air, no will die"
This article Fang Yu image source: Beijing News our video
Fang Yu, a severe cerebral palsy patient, could hardly speak and could only control a few toes throughout his body.
To express and communicate, she watched television for four years, stared at subtitles, learned to read, and eagerly got her parents to buy computers.
The parents were shocked.
At first, typing a line, she had to copy and paste what she wanted to say word by word through different web pages. A complete sentence, she may need to find in a few thousand words, and can only find more than 100 words a day.
In-depth communication with others is basically impossible.
Finally, she found an input method called mouse typing on the Internet, and she began to write articles and submit articles online.
For more than ten years, she wrote more than 200,000 words with her feet, little by little, little by little, little by her feet.
There are poems, essays, and even novels.
But the good times were short-lived.
The version of the input method expired, the two creators died one after another, and Fang Yu could no longer use it.
She asked for help online, and a well-meaning tech geek offered to give her a cracked version to use.
But Fang Yu refused, she was worried that in case one day it would not be used again, and she was even more worried that people in the same situation as her would not be able to crack it.
So she continued to ask for help online.
The Sogou input method team saw this information and took over the input method.
After many in-depth exchanges with Fang Yu, he improved the input method and finally changed its name to dot input method.
Finally, she could continue to type freely again.
This is Fang Yu's story, a story that is most inseparable from words.
After reading it, Xiaobian also tried to use the dot input method and typed a paragraph of text.
(Friends who want to experience, you can find a little bit of input in the Sogou input method)
The whole process only needs to be clicked with one finger, and there are two input modes:
One is the initial input, the rules of spelling, the user who does not know pinyin can easily spell the word; one is the pinyin input, according to the rules of the vowel rhyme, as long as you click twice, you can output a text.
There are also Sogou's own associative words, which will make it faster for people with disabilities to type.
Although for ordinary people, the typing speed will definitely be much slower than usual.
But for Fang Yu, the dot input method can be said to be 100 times faster, making her strong expression possible.
This is Fang Yu's death to the end.
It's not just Fang Yu.
In China, there are 85 million special groups and 264 million elderly people over the age of 60.
Self-expression and external expression are human instincts.
Physical defects or aging make them "left behind" in the digital torrent.
But with the development of the information age, technology has brought "their souls matching their bodies" one step closer.
Today, under the guidance of the China Assistive Devices Center for the Disabled under the China Disabled Persons' Federation, Tencent's Sogou Input Method, Shenzhen Information Accessibility Research Association, and the National Disabled Persons' Supplies Development and Supply Station jointly launched the "Voices" barrier-free input public welfare plan:
Based on the barrier-free technology accumulation of Sogou input method and Tencent technology public welfare, we will build an open platform for barrier-free input, open technical solutions such as visually impaired input, limb-disabled input, elderly input, OCR reading, AI sign language translation and other technical solutions to the whole industry, and unite with vivo, Tobii Dynavox Hearing Technology, Hannikon Technology and other industry forces to jointly help the input expression of disabled groups in the digital world.
Lu Shiming, vice chairman of the China Disabled Persons' Federation and president of the China Volunteer Association for the Disabled, said:
"The 'Voices of The Crowd' public welfare plan unites social forces through technological openness, and is committed to the convenient input of special groups with pragmatic actions, which is an active exploration of 'high-quality information barrier-free construction'." We look forward to more technology companies and social forces taking action to make information barrier-free and accessible, so that everyone can integrate into the digital society equally and share a better digital life. ”
In addition to this, for the first time, the "Eye Movement Input" solution was released today, and users with disabilities can complete the input by simply turning their eyes.
How do you type with your eyes?
The user installs an eye controller on the computer, and an eye-controlled mouse will be generated on the computer, and where the eyes are staring, the click operation can be completed.
Next, the "Voices" public welfare plan will also set up an expert research group to continue to study the needs of users with disabilities and share the research results in the form of public welfare reports.
Provide reference for the barrier-free optimization and adaptation of industry products and the formulation of industry standards.
Words are air, reading is water.
So that they can get better air and water.
We will always try.
By incorporating technology into input methods, you can make text more adaptable to the lives of people with disabilities.
So what will it be like to integrate technology into all walks of life?
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