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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.
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This work is supported by Alibaba-Zhejiang University Joint Institute of Frontier Technologies, Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. LZ13F020001), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61173185 and 61173186), the National Key Technology R&D Program of China (No. 2012BAI34B01 and 2014BAK15B02), and the Hangzhou S&T Development Plan (No. 20150834M22).
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Gu, C. et al. (2018). China’s Efforts to Information Service for Visual-Impaired People. In: Miesenberger, K., Kouroupetroglou, G. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10897. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94274-2_80
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