BOCA-APP: Aplicativo de smartphone de acesso a objetos em audiodescrição para inclusão de pessoas com deficiência visual

Abstract

The aim of this work is to present a proposal for the development of social technology through technical-pedagogical-cultural products and services, to contribute to the generation of opportunities and preparation of subjects for interaction with objects, spaces and everyday events, through audio description, promoting communication autonomy and citizenship of people with visual impairment. The problematization of this work starts from the rationale for the search for answers to the following questions: how to develop assisted technology to promote accessibility of people with visual impairments to the database, with digital objects in audio description? How to evaluate the use of the application developed with users and the perspective of universal design? The methodological procedures adopted were in 8 stages: 1 - Bibliographic research: consists of thematic and technical readings on assistive technology and applications, surveys of articles, books and related technical manuals; 2 - Documentary research: it was carried out in technical manuals on computer accessibility and application development and literature related to application development; 3 - Establishment of demand: the demand was limited to the use of an application to access objects in audio description using mobile devices using the Android operating system; 4 - Survey of resources: a diagnosis of hardware, operating system and internet bandwidth / share of smartphones of the average of the Brazilian population was carried out, such as low cost configuration Android phones; 5 - Proposition of solution: an architecture of flows, functions, applications, operations and application content was elaborated to access the virtual object library with audio description; 6 - Experimenting with the solution: experimenting with programming resources, frames, menus and data flow, network and accessibility features of the application and navigability accessible to visually impaired, blind and sighted people; 7 - Development of the solution / application: the version, range of the application and its navigability were developed and tested; 8 - Application evaluation: the evaluation was performed by visually impaired and normovisual users of the beta version of the application. The result presented, is an intuitively designed application with easy-to-access “menus”, all with objectivity to access the next step, in which users can use the screen reader application program that is already included in most operating systems, as a facilitator for reading the functions and instructions shown on the device's screen.