Communicational Accessibility: an analysis of the presence of assistive technologies in Brazilian media vehicles

Authors

  • Samara Leticia Wobeto Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Keywords:

Acessibilidade, Comunicação, Tecnologia Assistiva

Abstract

Abstract: The communication accessibility takes into account the communicative processes, be they in person (talk), physical (books) or digitals (internet). The objective is analyze the presence or not of assistive technologies in journalistic articles whose general theme is Accessibility. From the communicational cut, assistive tecnologies that integrate the scope of communicational accessibility were listed: audio description and/or image description, subtitling for the deaf and deaf, Libras’ box and extended characters. In this article, analyzed 40 reports from Estadão, Folha de São Paulo, G1 e Gaúcha ZH. It was found that assistive technologies' resources are insufficient in terms of communicational accessibility, or even nonexistent, in the case of the last two vehicles.

Author Biography

  • Samara Leticia Wobeto, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

    Samara Wobeto é acadêmica de Comunicação Social - Jornalismo, pela Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. É bolsista do Programa de Educação Tutorial da Comunicação Social - PETCom, da UFSM, e membro do Grupo de Pesquisa Circulação Midiática e Estratégias Comunicacionais, sob orientação da Professora Doutora Viviane Borelli.

    Currículo Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3876798863403545

     

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Published

2021-05-05

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 4 (2021): Anais de Artigos do IV Seminário Internacional de Pesquisas em Midiatização e Processos Sociais - Mediatized Sapiens – Communicational Knowledge in the Constitution of the Species

Section

WG COMMUNICATION AND DIFFERENCE: BODIES, AFFECTIONS AND TERRITORIES III

How to Cite

Wobeto, S. L. (2021). Communicational Accessibility: an analysis of the presence of assistive technologies in Brazilian media vehicles. Anais De Artigos Do Seminário Internacional De Pesquisas Em Midiatização E Processos Sociais, 1(4). https://anais.midiaticom.org/seminario-midiatizacao-artigos/article/view/1325