Jornalismo e acessibilidade : uma análise sobre o recurso de legenda descritiva nos portais de notícia da Paraíba.

Abstract

The present Course Completion Work (TCC) was carried out focusing on the daily life of people with visual impairments, with regard to access to the main journalistic news portals in Paraíba, through the use of a computer with a screen reader. The portals chosen for analysis were: Jornal A União, Correio da Paraíba, T5 and G1 Paraíba. With the main objective of reflecting on the accessibility to images in news portals in Paraíba through an analysis of descriptive captions presented in journalistic articles. In this aspect, observations were made about the encoding of the screen reader, if there were flaws and/or if they were identified, if they are frequent and/or periodic in the posted images. The course of this research took place on the computer, with the Windows 10 system, provided with the NVDA screen accessibility feature, through the Google Chrome browser. In addition to the theoretical scientific bibliographic survey on the origin of the computer, the internet in the world and in Brazil, on legal apparatus in the scope of accessibility, followed by some concepts aimed at the public of people with disabilities in the digital environment. Surveys were also carried out on the transformations of journalism on the web. After this phase, the practices were followed up through the tests in two phases, automatically, with the AccessMonitor validator software, and manually with the NVDA screen reader, between May and June 2022. In general, some reflections are proposed on accessibility in accessing journalistic news on the web by people with visual impairments, with emphasis on the analysis of descriptive captions with alternative texts in the images posted on the home pages of each mentioned portal, considering the importance of this strategy as a complement to information in the articles, also under the different ways of putting facts and news through verbal and/or non-verbal languages. Sites where it was possible to verify some accessibility practices with the screen reader are also mentioned. The results show the extent to which accessibility with the screen reader is present, as well as the finding that there are still many barriers to accessibility to information, especially with regard to descriptive subtitles with alternative texts in the news.