Privacy and Terms
This document brings together the Privacy Policy, the Terms of Use, a description of the technology used to build this site — including its accessibility statement — and answers to the most frequent questions.
This section answers the most common questions about using the 12 recommendations and about how this site works. For questions not covered here, please use the feedback form.
May I apply the 12 recommendations at my institution or in my materials?
Yes — that is exactly the purpose of the work. The recommendations may be adopted freely by educational institutions, teachers and professionals, at no cost and with no need for prior authorisation. All that is asked is attribution of authorship and, when reproducing the text of the recommendations, faithful transcription without paraphrase.
How do I cite this work in academic publications?
The full reference for the undergraduate final project, formatted to the Brazilian ABNT standard and ready to copy, is available on the Materials page, in the "How to cite" section.
Does this site collect my personal data?
No. The site uses no cookies, employs no trackers or audience analytics tools, and has no registration. The only points at which data can be provided are the feedback and collaboration forms — and only what you write yourself. The details are in the Privacy Policy tab.
Why does the site not have a floating accessibility widget?
By design decision. Third-party accessibility overlays and widgets are widely criticised by people with disabilities and by specialists: they interfere with the assistive technology a person already uses, and they mask problems instead of fixing them in the code. This site takes the opposite path — native accessibility, built into the HTML, the CSS and the content itself — complemented by an accessibility features panel of our own, developed inside the site (the fixed button on the right-hand edge), and, on the Portuguese pages, by VLibras, the Brazilian federal government’s public tool for translation into Libras.
Does the AI Assistant replace accessibility specialists?
No. The Assistant is a support tool: it applies the 12 recommendations to materials described by the user and indicates which recommendation grounds each suggestion. It does not replace assessment by accessibility professionals, the accessibility offices of institutions, or — above all — the participation of people with visual impairments themselves, the central principle of the research: "nothing about us without us".
I found a barrier or an error. How do I report it?
Through the feedback form, describing the page and the problem you found. Reports of accessibility barriers take priority for checking and reply.
Is the site available in other languages?
Yes. Since 26 July 2026 the site is published in Portuguese, English and Spanish. The round button at the top of the page (or at the foot of the navigation rail, on a computer) switches between them and always leads to the same page in the next language — someone reading Recommendation 07 in English carries on at Recommendation 07 in Spanish. The addresses are translated too: /pt/recomendacoes, /en/recommendations, /es/recomendaciones.
Portuguese is the canonical language. The research was written in it, and the text of the 12 recommendations published there is the faithful transcription of Table 8 of the article. The English and Spanish versions are faithful working translations, and every recommendation page in those languages says so and links to the original — so that nobody mistakes the translation for the text submitted to academic scrutiny.
One important difference between the languages: VLibras (translation into Brazilian Sign Language) exists only on the Portuguese version. The Technology and Accessibility tab, under "Known limitations", explains why.