Audio description in telejournalism: the inclusion of people with visual deficiency through the description of the images

Abstract

Audio description (AD) is a communicational accessibility tool that benefits blind and low-vision people. It’s based on the description of what are being showed on the screen. The research to address the use of audiodescription in telejournalism as a way to include visually impaired people in television. For the research the possibilities of insertion of the AD in the telejournalism were presented, like example, in MGTV, television newscast transmitted by the TV Integração, affiliate of Rede Globo in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais. The research concludes that AD is functional on television in all genres covered, making blind or low-vision people able to monitor what is being displayed on TV without loss of information. From the name of the interviewed people to the costumes and physical characteristics of the anchorman or anchorwoman and guests, in the scene movement in the studio and in the sound of reports, just as it is fundamental to the AD of the vignettes and graphics that are used in some moments. The study also presents new perspectives for the teaching of telejournalism in universities.