Visually impaired and information professionals: strategic procedures and proposal to the LTi portal

• Autor(a) principal: Sobral, Ana Sara Pereira de Melo
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Freire, Isa Maria
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Informação & Informação
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/informacao/article/view/39002
• topic: Visually impaired; Source of information; Indicdiciary method; Laboratory of Intellectual Technologies (LTi); Discapacitado visual; Fuente de información; Método indiciario; Laboratorio de Tecnologías Intelectuales (LTi); Deficiente visual; Fonte de informação; Método indiciário; Laboratório de Tecnologias Intelectuais (LTi)

Introduction: Social inclusion and technological insertion are interconnected actions in the development and support of social minorities, reducing barriers that prevent access to information. Objective: to identify, on the web, sources of information directed to people with visual impairment and/or interest to information professionals, to prepare a proposal to the LTi Project Virtual Portal to provide information on the thematic “visual impairment”. Methodology: The investigation is characterized by the indicdict method, the techniques and instruments of data collection included brauseio and use of spreadsheets to record. Results: The study proposed the organization of content on the LTi DV Portal page, on the LTi Portal with the following categories: Information for the visually impaired; Information for the visually impaired and information professionals; Public utility; Information objects; Communication Space, recreation. Conclusions: The research was successfully executed, opening possibilities for creating a page called LTi DV that gathers information on the theme, with the expectation of constant updating of content, dissemination of new communications, creations and improvement of assistive technology, as well as access to information, for greater equal opportunities.