Museum, audio description and tactile resources for visually impaired people: accessibility of Room Aldemir Martins at UFC’s Museum of Art (MAUC)

Abstract

Museu, audiodescrição e recursos táteis para pessoas com deficiência visual: acessibilidade da Sala Aldemir Martins do Museu de Arte (MAUC/ UFC) Abstract: This study aims to make accessible the paintings of Aldemir Martins, at Art Museum of Federal University of Ceará (MAUC) to blind and visually impaired people, focusing on the work of art Galo (1977). The research situates audio description (AD) as a form of Accessible Audiovisual Translation (AAVT) and tactile artwork as a translation of visual image into tactile language (DE COSTER; MÜHLEIS, 2007; HOLLAND, 2009). Our work is based on the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to provide an understanding of the piece of art (O’TOOLE, 2011). The theoretical and methodological frameworks of action research were used to create the AD and tactile artwork, harmonically (BARBIER, 2007). Computer-aided technologies for automatic or semi-automatic translation of paintings into tactile language were used (CARFAGNI et al., 2012). The first procedure was analyzing the paintings using the aforementioned theoretical background and writing the audio descriptions. The second procedure was submitting the AD to the group of participants, including blind audio description consultants, to ensure that the tactile pieces of art were made in ABUD, Janaína Vieira Taillade; OLIVEIRA, Geórgia Tath Lima de; ROCHA, Saulo Moreno. Museum, audio description and tactile resources for visually impaired people: accessibility of Room Aldemir Martins at Art Museum (MAUC/ UFC). Entrepalavras, Fortaleza, v. 11, n. 3, e2274, p. 12-31, set.-dez./2021. DOI: 10.22168/22376321-32274.