Proposta de acessibilidade para a comunidade surda no museu afro-brasileiro da Universidade Federal da Bahia

Abstract

The objective of this work is to discuss the accessibility of deaf people and present possible supports to be implemented in the Afro - Brazilian Museum (MAFRO), of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), in an attempt to extend the servisse to the Deaf Community, taking into account the specificities and needs of the same. In order to do so, the Victor Civita State College was chosen as a field research space for having in its student body a significant number of deaf people who contributed their statements to the proposed discussion, as well as to think about the accessibility proposal of MAFRO / UFBA to serve this community. Assuming that the museum is an institution at the service of society and that it should allow access to the deaf as part of the public it receives, making use of accessibility policies and the law of access to information, thus guaranteeing this right.