Accessibility Recommendations for Open Educational Resources Focusing on Visually Impaired People ; Recomendações de Acessibilidade para Recursos Educacionais Abertos com Foco em Pessoas com Deficiência Visual

Open Educational Resources (OERs), although quite popular, are not yet accessible to all audiences. Despite the large amount of free activities and resources, people with visual impairments still have difficulties in using these materials on a daily basis. Thus, the objective of this research is to present a series of recommendations that help in the development or adaptation of OERs to the reality of this audience, facilitating their use and raising awareness among education professionals about the existence of this type of material. Therefore, the literature, tools, form of use and daily difficulties with OERs were analyzed in order to elaborate a set of accessibility recommendations for people with visual impairment, with attention to touch, smell, hearing and digital alternatives. The recommendations were evaluated in different ways by: (i) a group of experts from the fields of computing and education; (ii) a person with visual impairment, a specialist in the production of accessible materials; (iii) a blind individual, a student in the final years of elementary school. The analyzes enabled the construction of updated and detailed recommendations, which consider different contexts, domains and artifacts. The results showed that the recommendations can help in the process of developing more accessible OERs, whether these resources are physical or computational. In addition, the recommendations suggest materials that are accessible to the reality of Brazilian schools and, therefore, can be applied in different contexts, with the exchange of materials and forms of application, with clear and objective writing. ; Recursos Educacionais Abertos (REAs), embora bastante populares, ainda não são acessíveis a todos os públicos. Apesar da grande quantidade de atividades e recursos gratuitos, as pessoas com deficiência visual ainda têm dificuldades em utilizar esses materiais no dia a dia. Assim, o objetivo dessa pesquisa é apresentar uma série de recomendações que auxiliem no desenvolvimento ou adaptação de REAs para a ...