Communicational Accessibility: an analysis of the presence of assistive technologies in Brazilian media vehicles

Abstract

Abstract: The communication accessibility takes into account the communicative processes, be they in person (talk), physical (books) or digitals (internet). The objective is analyze the presence or not of assistive technologies in journalistic articles whose general theme is Accessibility. From the communicational cut, assistive tecnologies that integrate the scope of communicational accessibility were listed: audio description and/or image description, subtitling for the deaf and deaf, Libras’ box and extended characters. In this article, analyzed 40 reports from Estadão, Folha de São Paulo, G1 e Gaúcha ZH. It was found that assistive technologies' resources are insufficient in terms of communicational accessibility, or even nonexistent, in the case of the last two vehicles.