China’s efforts to information service for visual-impaired people

Abstract

In China, there are more than 13 million visual-impaired people, which obtain information by touching and hearing rather than vision. To help them access to information more conveniently, many efforts have been made in China: Firstly, it provides digital resources by building China Digital Library for Visual Impairment; Secondly, it develops a software called Sunshine Screen Reader to help visual-impaired people search through the computer; Also, it promotes SunshineReader, a portable device, to enable visual-impaired people obtain information from electronic documents and printed text. All these efforts achieve demonstrable results in narrowing down the gap between visual-impaired people and information. Generally speaking, most information can be accessed by CDLVI, Sunshine Screen Reader and SunshineReader.