Aplicativo para o centro cultural cais do sertão com acessibilidade comunicacional para surdos e ensurdecidos

Abstract

The cultural tourism is a segment of tourism that is earning more and more space in the market, mainly because of the different productions and cultural expressions of each place. However, when it is produces projects to facilitate the access of all individuals to these environments, there are some social groups that are not benefited. Despite the attempt to make these places more accessible for people with disabilities, the proposed accessibility tends to be limited only to architectural interventions, forgetting communicational accessibility (AC), turned to at deaf people. Thus, it was proposed an app with communication accessibility for the deaf and deafened at Cais do Sertão, as it is a space of big cultural importance and well located at the center of Recife, with the aim of offering more autonomy for these individuals during the visitation. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to promote the use of assistive technologies, stimulate the cultural involvement of the deaf population and encourage the visitation of deaf people to the cultural center. Then, interviews were conducted with the management of Cais do Sertão and application of questionnaires with deaf people to verify the current situation of accessibility in the place. In view of this, it was noticed that the museum is not accessible for deaf people, and it is necessary to develop methodologies to assist in the visitation of the museum, confirming our initial hypothesis that the Cais do Sertão Cultural Center lacks accessibility for deaf people.