Acessibilidade informacional de PcD no contexto da Lei de Acesso à Informação: desafios para estudo de usuários

Abstract

Law 1.527 / 2011, known as the Law on Access to Information (LAI), regulates the right of access to public information, aimed at promoting citizenship and social control of public management. The Office of the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU), the current Ministry of Transparency, Oversight and Control (MTFC), the authority responsible for monitoring compliance with the law in every executive branch, has established procedures for processing requests for information and obligations regarding proactive disclosure and the duty to provide data in an open and non-proprietary format and penalties for those who deny access to information not protected by law. However, in Information Science, information accessibility depends on the knowledge of the information needs of the potential user, as well as the aspects that involve the infrastructure for access and disclosure, fundamental conditions for the development of mediations that enable cognitive access and appropriation of information by the user. It is a reflection on the theoretical-methodological challenges to carry out studies on user's information needs and user's information seeking behaviour in order to subsidize public information policies.