Educação, ciência e inclusão: arranjo de tecnologia assistiva para acessibilidade de pessoas com deficiência visual em periódicos científicos (BOCA-Pub)

Abstract

This thesis aims at developing a social assistive technology by means of a social, pedagogical, and technical product to contribute to citizenship development and life quality of visually impaired people in the interaction with scientific knowledge. The methodology of exploratory research with documentary and bibliographic approach was adopted following the prescription, description and proposition approach model (PDP), initially considering the legislation and technical norms as reference for visually impaired people in scientific publications. Afterwards, academic publications on digital content accessibility, visual impairment and assistive technology were gathered, helping to describe the accessibility resources for visually impaired people, and supporting the arrangement of assistive technology for creating and turning scientific papers accessible to visually impaired readers. As a result, this research presents a prototype that provides, free of charge, an accessible version of scientific papers, converting the papers electronic original versions into videos played on the YouTube platform with larger textual elements and text content read aloud by a human voice.