A good function! Detailed experience of the love mode on the 12306 website

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12306 has launched the Love Mode, which is designed to effectively solve the practical problems encountered by the elderly and people with disabilities when purchasing tickets online. It is also an information accessibility mode.

So what exactly is the love mode and how do you use it? Come and experience it now.

How to enter 12306 love mode

Go to the 12306 homepage (https://www.12306.cn/index/), and you can see the "Love Mode" button on the right side of the search box in the top column. Click it to enter the love mode of the entire site.

However, this button is not conspicuous enough, and it is in small font mode. Ordinary users have to look carefully to see it. It is recommended to make a more eye-catching button.

Figure 1 Love Mode

What is 12306 Love Mode?

12306 Love Mode, also known as Information Accessibility Mode, means that everyone, whether healthy or disabled, young or old, can benefit from information technology, and anyone can obtain and use information equally, conveniently and without barriers under any circumstances. 12306 has set up a special mode for the convenience of the elderly and disabled.

12306 mainly implements two accessibility functions: accessibility enhanced navigation function and accessibility website browsing auxiliary function.

Intuitive changes brought by 12306 Love Mode

After turning on the love mode, the most intuitive change for users is that all fonts on the web page become larger and bolder, an auxiliary toolbar appears at the top of the web page, and the text information at the cursor position is automatically read aloud, including input box information and selection box information.

Figure 2 Normal mode

Figure 3 Love Mode

Auxiliary functions brought by 12306 love mode

- Accessibility features for easy reading

For the elderly, the first obstacle they encounter when browsing the web is that they cannot see the words clearly because the fonts are too small. Therefore, the love mode of 12306 not only fully enlarges and bolds the fonts of the website, but also introduces three major functions: a large mouse, a display cursor and a display screen.

◇ Big mouse function: can change the user page cursor into a large style.

◇ Display cursor function: draw a red cross line at the cursor position.

◇ Display screen function: There is a display box in the lower sidebar of the web page, which enlarges and displays the text information at the cursor position in real time, similar to a magnifying glass.

Figure 4 Three functions that facilitate reading for the elderly

- Website color matching function to facilitate people with color deficiency

In addition to the above functions, the love mode also provides a website color matching function, allowing users in need to choose a high contrast mode between text and background colors to improve web content recognition.

Figure 5 White background with black text color matching mode

Figure 6 Blue background with yellow text color scheme

Figure 7 Yellow background and black text color matching mode

Figure 8 Black background with yellow text color matching mode

- Reading function for the visually impaired

In the love mode, 12306 provides the functions of point-and-read and continuous reading. Users can also choose three speeds: slow, normal and fast.

◇ The point-and-read function will read out the text at the user's cursor location and the contents of the input box and selection box in real time.

◇ The continuous reading function can automatically read the cursor position and subsequent text and the content of the input box selection box.

Figure 9 Reading function

- Shortcut key function for convenient full keyboard operation

Heart mode fully supports mouse operation and keyboard control. Users can use the following shortcut keys for convenient operation.

Figure 10 Shortcut keys

Summarize

According to statistics, there are currently 25 million users over the age of 65 registered on the railway 12306 website. After 12306 has implemented the transformation of aging-friendly and barrier-free functions, the "love mode" can help solve the practical problems encountered by the elderly and people with disabilities in online ticket purchases, further improving their ticket purchase experience.