China Braille Library is committed to providing diversified, multi-level and personalized cultural services for the blind by building a cultural information service platform and a mobile digital library. At the same time, the development and popularization of reading hearing AIDS for the blind have made up for the visual function of the blind to a great extent and opened a new era of reading for the visually impaired. China Cultural Information Service Platform for the Visually Impaired relies on the proprietary resources and professional services of Chinese Braille Library with rich contents and various forms, and aims at the characteristics and unique needs of blind people, providing not only online services of various books and digital resources for the blind in China, but also digital services such as electronic Braille, digital audio books for the blind, audio books and oral images. At the same time, it also publishes real-time information of cultural activities such as library training, exhibitions and lectures. The services include digital resource reading, electronic Braille downloading, oral image service, barrier-free film service, large-scale printing library service, service information service, education and training service, etc. The service module includes digital resources module, thematic resources module, periodicals module, service information module, education and training module and exhibition module. The service modes mainly include branch library IP direct, encrypted resource TF card lending, encrypted resource CD lending, branch library encrypted resource remote download, and mobile reading terminal lending with decryption function.

According to relevant standards such as Technical Requirements for Website Design for Information-Accessible People, the platform has developed barrier-free auxiliary toolbars for different physical functions, and achieved barrier-free reading for blind readers through functions such as browsing in pure text mode, text zooming in and out, high contrast display, auxiliary lines, page zooming in and out, barrier-free enhanced navigation function and barrier-free shortcut keys.

By the end of 2065438+September 2004, the platform had collected 34550 hours of 3552 kinds of audio books, electronic Braille 1687 kinds, and five kinds of thematic databases, such as e-books, professional papers and periodicals, legal professional knowledge, audio databases and periodicals, and made barrier-free transformation. In addition, it also integrates the excellent tools of the Commercial Press. These rich resources include classic literature, popular novels, famous forums, laws and regulations, etc. While meeting the cultural needs of the blind, they also provide a professional knowledge base to help the blind acquire professional knowledge. On this basis, the platform will gradually provide online exhibition, personalized digital library, mobile digital library, telephone digital library and other services, broaden the channels for blind users to obtain resources and expand the service scope of the platform.

In order to ensure that visually impaired readers can obtain the latest digital resources, the platform service information is updated every 1-2 days; Electronic Braille resources and audio resources are updated weekly, including 20 electronic Braille and 10 audio resources. The periodical library is updated every day. Through continuous resource collection and updating, the visually impaired cultural information service platform will gradually become a learning paradise for visually impaired readers and a general information base for the disabled. The use of information-based reading AIDS for the blind can help them overcome reading obstacles and integrate into mainstream cultural life. Chinese Braille Library has been paying attention to and actively participating in the development of assistive technology for the blind, and has developed a series of assistive products for the blind that obtain information through various compensation channels such as hearing, touch and residual vision.

Sunshine screen reading software allows blind people to operate computers, browse web pages and search for information like healthy people, so as to realize communication between people; The reading terminal of Sunshine Listening to Books Lang series can help the blind to make full use of all kinds of fragmented time to read and listen to books at will; Satellite smart phone and satellite smart PAD for blind people can realize online and download reading anytime and anywhere, completely overcome the obstacles of time, space and reading media, and open the era of mobile digital library; The scanning stick of the satellite can quickly identify the characters on a paper book as e-books in text format through scanning, saving and character recognition functions, and read them out, thus completely breaking the reading gap between blind readers and ordinary books in the traditional impression; Satellite braille display displays all kinds of cultural resources and knowledge information in braille, so that blind readers can touch and read without obstacles; Satellite electronic vision auxiliary equipment has the functions of image amplification, freeze-frame, photographing and image playback. , for friends with low vision to polish the horizon of reading and writing.

With the approach of the 13th Five-Year Plan, the Institute of Assisted Technology will seize the opportunity that the country is increasingly supporting and attaching importance to cultural undertakings for the disabled, and on the basis of optimizing and upgrading existing products, focus on developing new products suitable for reading and learning for the blind in China.

Sunshine Tingshulang series products

Sunshine Tingshulang V 1

Sunshine Tingshulang L905

Sunshine Tingshulang S920

Sunshine Listener S9 18

Palm diagram L550

Satellite vision AIDS M60 1

Satellite electronic blind cane C82 1

Satellite monitor TS 1

TS2 listening machine

TS3 listening machine

Wen xing Feng Chao mobile phone

Satellite scanning rod

Satellite braille display BD-40S