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Travel with peace of mind|It’s hard for the blind to abandon the market and go to the supermarket to buy food and ingredients

2021-11-05T03:00:52.791Z


Markets and government buildings of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department will start from November 1, requiring all citizens entering the premises to use "Travel with peace of mind", and those in need can change to "Paper Fillers". However, under the two registration methods, the blind


Markets and government buildings of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department will start from November 1, requiring all citizens entering the premises to use "Travel with peace of mind", and those in need can change to "Paper Fillers".


However, the blind people have difficulties under the two registration methods. Sheng Lilian, the director general of the Hong Kong Association for the Blind, pointed out that the QR code of Anxin Travel on the wall is a flat surface. Even if the blind has a smart phone, they cannot align it. Scanning, and there is no hand in the market to assist the visually impaired to write paper, describing the two practices as "something funny, but little less", referring to the fact that some members have switched to supermarkets to buy food.


▼Kowloon City Market on November 2▼


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Sheng Lilian said that after receiving feedback from members, even if it is a smartphone user, the blind person "holds the phone and opens to the app", but the QR code is stuck on the wall and "touches the frame" and cannot scan the code correctly. .

He also said that although the blind can fill in their personal information, "it is very difficult to fill in the thin paper, the words are so awkward, and the low vision." Some markets have only one entrance and exit, but no one can assist the blind.

Sheng Xu said that its center is located next to the community center. From time to time, blind people who wish to enter the community center pat the door for help.

He quoted some members as saying that because they could not travel with peace of mind, they had to buy ingredients in supermarkets, which were more expensive, and vegetables and fish were not fresh.

He continued that the government only needs to make very simple arrangements to improve the problem. It can make a protruding frame outside the QR code notice so that the blind can reach it; Blind mode, there is no problem to use.

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