Contribuições do uso de materiais digitais acessíveis no processo de ensino aprendizagem de pessoas com deficiência visual nas Universidades Públicas Federais da Região Nordeste

Abstract

All higher education institutions must strive to make their environments accessible and inclusive, and to collaborate with the admission, retention and training of visually impaired individuals who participate in their academic community, through interdisciplinary communication. Through university libraries, these institutions collaborate with the social, informational, educational and cultural development of these students. The general objective of the research is to analyze the role of university libraries in the production and dissemination of accessible digital materials for visually impaired individuals enrolled in federal public universities in the Northeast Region. The methodological strategy used is based on concepts that strengthen the existence of interdisciplinarity in areas of knowledge such as Library Science, Information Science, education with an inclusive perspective and information technologies. Its typology is classified as a multiple case study, with a qualitative approach. For data collection, an online questionnaire with multiple choices was developed using Google Forms, at which time content analysis was used to process the data from the open-ended questions. The research universe was composed of nine federal public universities, with a cutoff point for those that achieved the highest grade from INEP in 2024. To compose the sample frame, the university library systems connected to these institutions were selected. The data collected demonstrate results on the development of services, services and products with inclusive perspectives that have been carried out by university libraries, proving that the production of accessible digital materials is an expanding action in these environments. They also demonstrate that this type of material can help in the formation of citizenship, literary autonomy, and the academic, scientific and social development of its students in society, but that they need to be disseminated to the community of interest, as well as information accessibility being carried out on the websites of the institutions surveyed.