App aging and then welcome new progress, inducement and advertising "traps" disappear, the operation is simplified

On January 29, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology issued a notice saying that a total of 51 apps passed the aging and accessibility level assessment.

These apps involve social, financial, travel, shopping and other fields, including Tencent News, Today's Headlines, WeChat, Alipay, Pinduoduo, etc.

After being revamped and evaluated, these apps are more user-friendly for seniors and people with disabilities. By searching for keywords such as "Elderly Edition, Caring Edition, And Affection Edition", you can directly reach the entrance of the old-age mode with one click. It has the functions of large fonts and large icons that are more convenient for the elderly to operate and browse information, and there are no inducing buttons and advertising plug-ins.

In addition, these apps are also more convenient for visually impaired users to operate after the transformation, and are basically compatible with auxiliary devices such as screen reading functions and hearing aids.

In order to protect the rights and interests of elderly users, in January 2021, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology launched a one-year "Special Action for Ageing and Barrier-free Transformation of Internet Applications".

Subsequently, a variety of Apps for aging and barrier-free transformation, not long ago, some media evaluated the first batch of 43 APPS included in the special transformation, and found that more than 70% of them were embedded transformations, that is, switching the old age mode in the original software, and did not develop independent software for the elderly. (Article| "Finance and Economics" Weekly Tianyu)