Audio description as a resource for inclusion and cultural accessibility in Information Science

Abstract

This professional master's research in Information Science (IS), which presents a study on audio description, applies to the purpose of expanding the informational repertoire of visitors to Largo da Gente Sergipana. The work was based on IS, with a research problem on accessibility to cultural education content. The exploratory methodology used, with a qualitative approach and applied nature, was based on action research, with direct collaboration with masters of cultural movements, allowing us to understand what information these individuals would like to pass on to society, in an attempt to undo a conservative path of research mediated by classical patterns and perspectives. The results demonstrate that audio description can contribute to the cultural education of different audiences, especially those with visual impairment, including children, adolescents, adults and elderly people with low vision, people with intellectual development disorders, autistic people, people with multiple disabilities, not literate, tourists, among other groups. From an academic point of view, the elaboration of the audio description installed in the square in October 2022 followed a humanist approach to professional performance in IC.