Acessibilidade informacional para músicos com deficiência visual

Abstract

The study deals with the informational accessibility of musicians with visual impairments in the scope of musicography, through the use of sheet music in Braille and has as a question how the informational behavior of blind musicians from Music courses in Fortaleza - Ceará occurs to access musical information they need in the context of their training? What are the actions of Music courses and libraries that attend these courses, in relation to the mediation of musical information and accessibility? The general objective of the research was to analyze how informational accessibility happens to students with visual impairments in Music courses in the city of Fortaleza - Ceará, more specifically in relation to the access and use of the Braille scores. The specific objectives were: to map Ceará institutions dedicated to this public and that have Braille scores; identify real and potential users of the score in Braille and study how the informational behavior of people with DV in relation to musical information occurs; to investigate how mediation of information occurs in teaching-learning, in the adaptation of materials to reach the reading of scores by users; and, finally, to verify the libraries' strategies of action in relation to the informational accessibility of blind people. It presents an empirical study carried out in four educational institutions: Federal University of Ceará, State University of Ceará, Hélio Góes Institute - Society for Assistance to the Blind and Alberto Nepomuceno Music Conservatory. It is a qualitative research, with an exploratory character, which initially starts with bibliographic and documentary research to compose a theoretical corpus. In the empirical part of the research, the semi-structured interview was used as a data collection instrument, conducted with visually impaired students from the UFC Music course. This interview was based on Wilson's Information Search Behavior Model, from 1981 and 1996. The data showed that this research contributes to the theme of accessibility and inclusion, as well as academic studies in the field of disability visual.