With the accelerated development of the Internet, more and more middle-aged and elderly people are now using smartphones to access the Internet in order to adapt to the changes in society. However, unlike young people, older people have a relatively large Internet problem,for this reason, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology side of the WeChat Alipay and other will be age-appropriate transformation. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that the purpose of doing so is to ensure that the elderly Internet operation and security .
It is reported that in order to cope with the difficult thing for the elderly to access the Internet, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has begun to promote the first batch of aging and accessibility transformation, specifically the APP list includes: Tencent News, Sina Weibo and other news information products, but also WeChat, QQ and other social communication tools, as well as Taobao, Jingdong, Baidu and other life shopping.
In which, Alipay and WeChat are the APPs for most of the elderly and are closely related to their daily lives. WeChat as a social transportation, very convenient for our lives, Alipay as the nation's hundreds of millions of people's payment method, is also very convenient. In the content of this transformation process, the special action plan points out that for the elderly, more products with functional features such as large fonts, large icons and high-contrast words should be introduced, and more enterprises are encouraged to introduce interface modes that are simple and easy to operate, and to realize a variety of accessibility features such as one-key operation and text input prompts. Enhance dialect recognition capabilities to facilitate the use of smart devices by the elderly who do not speak Mandarin.?
In particular, there are many mandatory advertisements in the Internet nowadays, and there is the problem of easily misleading the elderly, so the revamped Internet websites and cell phone APPs will no longer have advertisement plug-ins after completing the revamp of the old-age-appropriate, caring, and barrier-free versions, especially the payment-type operations will be free of any induced keystrokes. In addition, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology requires China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom from now on, the elderly over 65 years of age to call the customer service phone of these three telecom operators, you can ? One key to enter? manual counseling services, without having to go through the complex voice prompts and number selection and other operational aspects.?
These humanized transformation moves, are to solve the current difficult problem of the elderly Internet access, which is also a major obstacle to social progress, the State Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to give the transformation is in line with the national situation, and very thoughtful move, caring for the elderly, everyone has a responsibility!