Makevisio: plataforma de auxílio a pessoas com deficiência visual para navegação na internet

Abstract

Information and communication technologies (ICT) have become paramount in all aspects of people’s lives, both for professional activities and for leisure and communication between individuals. Accessibility to these technologies has been a concern of Internet-standardizing bodies such as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and governments that create the basis for web pages to be accessible to everyone, including those with disabilities. . However, pages on the Internet are in disagreement with the guidelines proposed for their development, which makes it difficult to use tools that promote accessibility, impairing the right of access to their content. The use of the internet by visually impaired people, both academically and professionally and for leisure, has been achieved through the use of assistive technology, especially for screen readers, but their limitations and non-compliance with accessibility rules hinder usability and the blind user experience. This work introduces Makevsio, an internet-accessible platform that converts web pages to display them appropriately for visually impaired people.