A audiodescrição na garantia do direito à fruição cultural das pessoas com deficiência visual

Abstract

The article 215 of the Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil establishes that the National Government shall guarantee to all “full exercise of cultural rights and access to sources of national culture”. This provision constitutes a big challenge for Government, mainly because of the cultural and economic disparities existent in the country. In this sense, people with disabilities need the elimination of barriers to access the varied cultural equipments. This paper has as scope the analysis of the guarantee of cultural right fruition to people with visual disability, by the use of audiodescription. This work will emphasize the audiodescription use on television, because it is the most popular means of communication in Brazil. To this analysis it will be necessary, by applying a bibliographical research, the approach about cultural rights, rights of people with disabilities, in Federal Constitution and in Convention on the rights of people with disabilities, and laws about audiodescription in Brazil. It will be demonstrated that audiodescription meets the constitutional and conventional purposes and that the laws about this technique are still below the necessity of people with visual dibability.