Alibaba’s Amap Continues to Add Accessible Navigation Features in More Cities

Alibaba‘s digital map service Amap is adding wheelchair navigation feature to make travel more convenient for individuals with disabilities with the latest addition of public restroom information in the city of Hangzhou. Amap’s accessible navigation service has now lined Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and different main cities in China. This service may also be utilized by dad and mom touring with infants or aged travellers.

To present look after the disabled, Amap has successively launched details about accessible restrooms and accessible elevators since 2017. In addition, 15 apps underneath Alibaba Group have accomplished info transformation to higher serve the digitally deprived teams such because the disabled and the aged.

The shortage of accessible restrooms and inconvenience of discovering them in China are main deterrents for disabled people to enterprise out. A wheelchair consumer recounted her ordeal, “Over ten years ago, I faced immense difficulty in locating an accessible restroom during my travels. It’s hard to express the embarrassment and sadness that situation caused me. Consequently, every time I step out, I meticulously plan how much water intake is feasible within an hour. Unfortunately, this isn’t just my story; thousands of disabled people encounter similar challenges. Accessible restrooms are crucial for our well-being.” Bailing Guo, a wheelchair engineer at Alibaba Group, whom additionally suffers from childish paralysis, has confronted related challenges.

Zheng Zhong, who oversees the each day operations of the Hangzhou Accessible Environment Construction Office, acknowledged that since June 2020, Hangzhou has been actively selling the set up of accessible tools all through town. As of now, amongst over 1,800 public restrooms in Hangzhou, over 80% are simply accessible to all people. These accessible public restrooms could be conveniently positioned on Amap.

Bailing Guo hoped that accessible restrooms shouldn’t be used as smoking rooms or occupied inappropriately and emphasised that some disabled people are unable to management their bodily features after they can’t entry an applicable restroom, which might consequence in unfavorable results on their well being.

Meanwhile, Alibaba Group helped 1000’s of people that have disabilities to discover undifferentiated employment and reside barrier-free in the previous 12 months, in accordance to the annual report on serving to these with particular wants, collectively launched by Alibaba and its philanthropy basis.

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