Huawei has developed an Intelligent Information Accessibility Solution for people with disabilities. It has incorporated "accessibility" traits into its product design since 2017 and keeps refining the accessibility features to ensure that all users especially those who has physical disabilities can enjoy the benefits brought by smart devices.
For visually impaired users, Huawei has enhanced the ScreenReader feature, to introduce AI capabilities to scenarios that visually impaired users may find challenging. It has developed features such as Photography assistant, Travel assistance, and Intelligent interaction, which can help with image recognition, image Q&A, text recognition, semantic comprehension, face recognition, and object detection. This solution makes it easy for visually impaired users to view images, take pictures, travel, and interact with their world in a highly immersive way.
For hearing impaired users, Huawei has provided an intergraded solution including Voice enhancement feature, the Celia Call, AI subtitles and sign language services. Voice enhancement feature targets and compensates for audio of high, medium, or low frequencies based on the nature of the impairment, so that audio can be heard loud and clear. The Celia Call and AI subtitle features support intelligent speech-to-text and text-to-speech conversions, helping users make phone calls, enjoy livestreams, watch subtitle-free videos, and communicate with greater ease. The SignPal Kit is capable of converting Chinese text into sign language that is coherent and grammatically correct in real time, along with natural facial expressions, to ensure smooth communications.

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Huawei’s intelligent accessibility solution includes 21 features and most of them can be easily access in the smartphones.
ScreenReader has been adapted to HarmonyOS and EMUI 13, and is supported in Chinese, English, French, and Spanish, with more to be supported in the near future.
Voice enhancement has been adapted to certain HUAWEI TWS earphones, and HUAWEI CM33 Type-C wired earphones, and will be supported on more HUAWEI TWS earphones models in the near future.
Currently, AI subtitle is mainly applicable to users in the Chinese mainland, and supports English, Japanese, and Korean, with more languages to be supported in the near future.
Photography assistant, Travel assistance, Celia Call, and Huawei SignPal Kit are widely used in the Chinese mainland, and are expected to be promoted in more countries/regions in the future.

The project was wholly funded by Huawei. All development, management, hosting, updates and further development, were all funded by Huawei. Huawei has opened up the Signpal Kit since October, 2021 and announced to open up the Computing vision ability and Natural language interaction ability in 2022.
With the opening up, more and more APPs and servers will be benefited from technology and helping more and more people with disabilities. And together, we can build a more inclusive world, a more sustainable world.

The goal of WSIS is to achieve a common vision, desire and commitment to build a people-centric, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society where everyone can create, access, utilize and share information. Huawei’s Intelligent Information Accessibility Solution aims to bring convenient services to people with disabilities, to help them to get access to information and knowledge, to enjoy daily life with their families and friends, like everyone in the world.