Graphic language for the visually impaired: first empirical results

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Marcelo
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: E-Compós
• Texto Completo: https://www.e-compos.org.br/e-compos/article/view/1231
• topic: Cegueira 1. Linguagem gráfica 2. Semiótica peirceana 3.

This article presents the first empirical results of the research project initiated in 2008, which examines the production of images by the blind. The project has a twofold objective. One, to question certain canons of visual language to prove that a number of its principles are learned without the assistance of vision, thus showing that they are not exclusively characteristic of visuality; second, the study seeks to propose methodologies for constructing tactile images, which are equally accessible to those with or without visual handicaps. The facts stated here were culled from a qualitative study undertaken with a visually impaired subject who was invited to illustrate imagetic, diagrammatic, and metaphoric images, interpreted within this text with the help of Peircean semiotics.