Encontrabilidade da Informação nos Repositórios Digitais da UFRN: um enfoque na avaliação da acessibilidade digital junto aos discentes cegos
Considering the importance of Open Access to academic-scientific production, higher education institutions have begun to implement digital and institutional repositories, which make viable the dissemination of this production and, in parallel, the preservation of institutional memory. The Federal Un...
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Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
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| Resumo: | Considering the importance of Open Access to academic-scientific production, higher education institutions have begun to implement digital and institutional repositories, which make viable the dissemination of this production and, in parallel, the preservation of institutional memory. The Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte has three digital repositories under its responsibility, being them: the Institutional Repository, which disseminates documents produced by postgraduate studants stricto sensu, administrative technicians and teachers; the Digital Library of Monographs, which offers undergraduate and postgraduate monographs lato sensu; and the Accessible Information Repository, which presents documents adapted for people with disabilities. Due to the relevance institutional of these environments, all implemented from the DSpace software, it becomes important that its users, regardless of their access and use conditions, are able to find the information they need. It is considered that blind users, especially, have difficulties in accessing and finding information in digital information environments. Based on this, the general objective of the research is to evaluate the findability of information with a focus on digital accessibility in UFRN digital repositories, analyzing whether they are in compliance with digital accessibility standards in relation to people with blindness. For this, the research is methodologically structured as exploratory, applied to the Inductive Method. The application of the research occurred in two moments: in the first moment, two pages of each repository were selected, which were automatically analyzed with the use of an accessibility evaluetor, AccessMonitor; in the second moment, the research used the Participant Observation and Structured Interview to carry out an accessibility test with blind students of UFRN. The results demonstrated errors in the identification of the headers in source code are not well demarcated, errors in the identification of tables and lists that can cause disorientation and among others that can dificulted the process of search and findability of the available information. It is concluded that the repositories need changes, mainly in the structuring of the pages, which is possible through the customization of DSpace, in order to improve the fluidity of the information specifically for this public. |
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