Audiodescrição: um recurso de acessibilidade na televisão digital

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Ishikawa, Maria Inês Garcia [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Televisão digital; Acessibilidade; Audiodescrição; Deficientes visuais; Digital television
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/110880

New realities and paradigms have been lived, which influence the daily lives of people. It is know that for the development of society in contemporary times, it is essential the access to information to all citizens, aiming a larger number of people involved in this informational process and enabling social inclusion. We face, however, a society that needs to meet diversity and that requires the glimpse of new ways of social inclusion for people with disabilities. To reflect about inclusion comprises the alert that involves essues of normality and particularities of each person. Thus, we sought to develop studies and research about this subject with a Brazilian reality - Santa Luzia Home and School for the Blind in the city of Bauru (SP), that comprised two methodological steps: selective bibliographical research for a selective construction of the theoretical framework, and the development of a field research, supported by this framework. Such research was conducted by: documentary research (for obtaining information about the undestanding of its environment) and also on-site observation, to narrow the trust and relationships with the individual surveyed in a total of 20 people with visual impairment, selected based on their characteristics of visual impairment and with conditions of understanding the topic and offering answers to the interviews. The results obtained allow us to state that audio description is a feature that serves to promote communication accessibility through verbal description of the visual elements autonomy, stimulating imagination and broadening the understanding of those who cannot make use of vision, ensuring the rights to information, accessibility and inclusion. In this sense, it was concluded that audio description should be used in Digital Television because it enables new possibilities for inclusion and possible alternative accessibility in communication media, transforming the visual elements into verbal...