“Quem cabe no seu todos?” Jornalismo e deficiência visual: um estudo sobre a acessibilidade de usabilidade de notícias em redes digitais.

Abstract

This study aims to identify, verify, and analyze the non-conformities related to accessibility of digital news according to the Understandability criterion of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), of which Brazil is a signatory. The corpus of this research comprises materials collected from Folha, O Globo.com, and Correio24horas. Considering the complexity of the research, the hybrid research methodology (qualitative–quantitative) was employed, developed, and improved by the Research Group on Online Journalism. The theoretical foundation is based on Accessibility and Usability, Multimidiality, and Semantic Resolution. The study examined the characteristics of digital news, the syntactic and semantic elements that compose them, aspects that do not comply with the guidelines of the W3C Consortium, and the crossing of these scientific findings with the experience of visually impaired users when accessing this information. The methodological strategies combined several sources of evidence, such as literature review, automatic and manual evaluations of the vehicles as mentioned above, semi-structured interviews with editors and individuals with visual disabilities, online quizzes, usability tests, and design and checking protocol. The data evaluation demonstrated that the syntactic structure, semantics, and the characteristics of the main news in the digital environment can serve as facilitators or barriers in accessing information by individuals with visual impairment.