O acesso da pessoa com deficiência visual à produção científica : um estudo sobre arquitetura da informação e acessibilidade dos periódicos eletrônicos de biblioteconomia e ciência da informação

Abstract

Introducion: This present work apprpaches conceptual aspects related to communication eletronic jornauls, open access, architecture (IA) and web accessibility. Objectives: It presents as a general objective the analysis of the acessibility criteria adopted by the journals: Transinformação, Perspectivas em Ciencia da Informação, Informação e Sociedade and RDCBI: Revista Digital de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação. Metodology: It is characterized as a descriptive study applied to the princciples and elements of IA, as well as the Acessibility Guidelines for Web Content (WCAG 2.1). It uses a comparative method to analyze the structures of the journals, whit regard to their desing, which includes qualitative and quantitative research, and is supported by bibliographical and documentary research. The analyzes werw carried out comprising the sample of this four initial pages of the selected journals. Results: As results and perfomace, it is noted the adoption of many elements of IA that make the digital environment more accessible to all users, however few web acessibility criteria verified through automatic validation made with accessMonitor are used. Conclusion: Is is conclued this jornauls have to much to improve to answer international acessibility standards and thus include person with visually desabilities (PVD).