Para todos verem por palavras: elaboração de Tecnologia Assistiva e Banco de Dados de Objetos Digitais de Audiodescrição Segundo o Princípio do Desenho Universal (BOCA-REP)

Abstract

This dissertation is part of the field of Human Sciences and Information Technology, in the area of informatics and inclusive education, with the theme of universal design as assistive technology and as a resource for communicational accessibility and promotion of citizenship and social inclusion, education and cultural diversity of people with or without disabilities. Based on Clauss Mueller's theory of blocked communication, he points out that in modern societies a blocked, limited or conditioned access of the subjects to the means, opportunities and practices of communication, blocks, limits and conditions the citizenship experience by these subjects. The dissertation aimed to develop digital and social technology to disseminate, free of charge, the practice of using the concepts and principles of universal design, where products should be accessible to all people with disabilities or not. Universal Design is a concept applied to all stages of creation of an object and environments, from its planning, development and deployment, thus avoiding the need for adaptations and creation of special products for people with disabilities. Based on methodologies of social research, inclusive education and democratic access technologies, the dissertation proposed, through collaborative networks, to elaborate a database prototype of production and collaboration of audio description, to multiply this production capacity through processes and pedagogical materials and make the contents produced in a database free of charge through a portal (BOCA-web) and an app for smatphones (BOCA-app). The elaboration of a strategy of insertion of the principle of the universal design in the development of information and communication technologies already in the elaboration and development phases, and to develop a database of digital objects of audiodescription, incorporating the principle of the universal design in the formatting of objects and in the architecture of the bank, were the main objectives of this dissertation.