Desenvolvimento de tecnologia assistiva para avaliação de legendas para surdos: aplicativo APP-EAL

Abstract

Subtitles are an indispensable resource for deaf people to perceive information. However, even with the creation of norms for their production, there has been a “noise” between the legislation and the tool itself. In other words, some studies pointed that there have been serious problems related to the technical limitations of subtitles. Undoubtedly, there is still a need of a more efficient fiscalization by public organs and authorities in relation to the subtitles’ formation, so that they can be in fact one resource of accessibility for users. This study has the overall aim of proposing a technology for the assessment of subtitles’ quality (app for smartphones of Android system) which will make a debate among emitters, in order to improve subtitles; public power – in order to oversight them, and users – in order to learn how to make good use of them and get empowered. Specific aims are: a) to develop (creation, test and diffusion) of an app that will systematically make and share the subtitles assessments. And Theoretical referential encompassed authors that discuss about pseudo accessibility and blocked/massified communication, as well as the ones who debate about communication, language, democracy, social participation and emancipation of individuals. The idea herein debated is that the use of assistive technologies in cooperative nets is efficient to overcome the pseudo accessibility through the individual empowerment, while making them protagonists. This research is based on the founding research (bibliographic and documentary research) associated with experimental development research (demand, resource, proposition of a solution, experimentation and development) with analysis carried out through panel study. The analysis was performed through the panel study. Composed of the research universe 65 collaborators (deaf, impaired and hearing – TV viewers of Brazilian contents) took part of the analyses, tests and validations. We believe that a technology able of linking communicative, cooperative and interactive nets - among the users, emitters and public power – is also able to promote the social, communicative and educational inclusion of impaired people. Moreover, cooperative communitarian volunteering nets are an important source of inclusion, which aims the protagonism and empowerment of deaf people. At last, we believe that the assessments’ feedbacks will enable the improvement of subtitles quality on television.