O uso de tecnologias assistivas no acesso à web por alunos com deficiência visual da UFS

Abstract

This study investigated the contributions of Web accessibility Assistive Technologies to facilitate the autonomous access to knowledge by students with blindness and low vision in the Federal University of Sergipe. This is a case study with qualitative approach, whose field of research is the University campus located in the city of São Cristóvão. The results showed that the features of Web accessibility Assistive Technology does not fully meet the current needs of blind students because it promotes intellectual and autonomous development still in a very simplistic way. There is a need for improvements to reach the fullness of this autonomy through accessibility, since screen readers make users passive and, as a consequence, generate delay and loss of time in response and action execution.