Acessibilidade para estudantes com deficiência visual ao ensino remoto: um estudo em Institutos Federais de Educação

Abstract

The present research entitled "Accessibility for visually impaired students to remote teaching: A study in Federal Institutes of Education" has as a guiding question: in what ways have the Federal Institutes of Education provided accessibility conditions for visually impaired students in remote teaching? Ensuring accessibility to digital documents made available in synchronous and asynchronous classes was fundamental, in this period, to promote the access to information and communication of these students. Moreover, it was essential to seek strategies that would meet the needs of all, respecting the specificities and providing the appropriate conditions for learning. Thus, the general objective of this study was to analyze the accessibility conditions provided by the Federal Institutes of Education for these students in remote education. This research is in multipaper format composed of three articles with the purpose of meeting the proposed objectives. It was decided to carry out, in this research, a multiple case study in order to understand in detail the object of study.Thus, it was used as an instrument of data collection for the questionnaire based on the Access to Information Law (12.527/2011), which aims to request information from agencies about their activities, policy and organization. The questionnaire was sent by the website falabr.cgu.gov.br to ten Federal Education Institutes, two from each of the five regions of the country and had as participants the Centers for Assistance to People with Specific Needs (NAPNEs).The questionnaire sent to the centers was about accessibility in the teaching materials made available in the virtual environment for blind and low-vision students, problems faced in this context and training for these students about accessibility in the platforms adopted by institutions in the period of the COVID 19 pandemic. For data analysis we used the Content Analysis proposed by Bardin. Thus, through the reports of the Accessibility Centers it was observed that some of the difficulties mentioned in this period are also obstacles faced in face-to-face teaching as gaps in the training of teachers to meet the diversity found in the school space. Therefore, this research had as a product an orientation booklet about accessibility in digital teaching materials for students with visual impairment in order to subsidize the work of teachers and enable the participation and inclusion of all students who need to have their right of access respected in the school space to be able to continue with their studies even in an unusual moment confronted in the pandemic period.