Materials

Current status

The planned materials will gather, in downloadable files, the same canonical content presented in the Recommendations section: the full text of the 12 recommendations, with the recommendation, the responsibility and the opportunity of each one, organised for reading, printing and distribution away from the site.

None of them has been produced so far. Preparing the files depends on institutional steps still under way — among them the approvals needed to publish material derived from the research under the university’s name. Until that is settled, this page declares the plan rather than announcing a date the project cannot meet.

The content itself, however, is available right now: the 12 recommendations can be read in full on the pages of the Recommendations section, which work with screen readers, magnification and keyboard navigation.

The planned formats

Publishing in four formats is not redundancy — it is consistency with the research itself. Recommendation 08 (Flexibility of the resource) establishes that every teaching material be made available with flexibility of choice and the possibility of personalising the interaction, in order to guarantee access to information with autonomy. The project applies the recommendation to its own content: each format serves a different reading condition — the screen with a screen reader, magnification, paper, the ear, touch — and it is for the reader, not the publisher, to choose the route of access.

All four will derive from the same canonical content and will not replace one another. The description below sets out what each format will be, what it will carry, who it will chiefly serve — and which recommendation underpins the decisions behind its production.

Accessible PDF

A fixed-layout document with semantic tagging: headings, lists and tables declared in the file’s structure, a defined reading order, real text — not an image of text — and a description on every figure. That is what separates an accessible PDF from an ordinary one: screen readers move through the document’s structure just as they move through the pages of this site.

The typesetting will follow Recommendation 09 (Design of the resource): sans-serif type, generous size, clear hierarchy and high contrast — the same information design attributes the research establishes for teaching materials.

Chiefly intended for: consultation and printing with a stable layout, archiving and institutional distribution.

EPUB

A reflowable digital book: the text rearranges itself to fit the screen, with no horizontal scrolling and no need to magnify the page. The reading app allows type, size, spacing and colours to be adjusted — the personalisation of the interaction set out in Recommendation 08 (Flexibility of the resource), under the direct control of the reader.

It will be the format best suited to extended reading on phones and tablets, and the one that best serves people with low vision who rely on magnification: the text reflows instead of overflowing.

Chiefly intended for: reading on mobile devices and fine adjustments to presentation, especially by people with low vision.

Audio

A full narration of the canonical content — the 12 recommendations with their responsibilities and opportunities — segmented by recommendation so that listeners can go straight to the passage they want.

The format will serve those who prefer or need the auditory channel, and it frees reading from screen and paper: while travelling, on a break, when revising. Offering an additional sensory channel speaks to Recommendation 12 (Multisensory stimulation), which calls for exploring different routes of perception in accessing content.

Chiefly intended for: listening in any situation, as the main or a complementary route of access to the content.

Braille-ready edition

A file prepared for braille transcription and embossing: linear structure, revised breaks and divisions, no dependence on visual cues — ready to be processed by accessibility offices, braille presses and transcription services.

The edition will not replace the transcriber’s work; it anticipates it. By delivering content already revised for that purpose, it reduces the rework of adaptation and shortens the path between the institution and tactile material in the student’s hands.

Chiefly intended for: accessibility offices and transcription services that produce material in braille.

Downloads

The table summarises the formats described above and will hold the download actions. While a format does not exist, the Status column reads "Not started" — with no expected date, because there is no date to give.

While the files do not exist, the full content of the 12 recommendations remains available on the pages of the Recommendations section — which work with screen readers, magnification and keyboard navigation.

How the materials will be made

No file will be published before it passes the same accessibility verification applied to this site: a full reading with a screen reader and a check of the reading order and image descriptions, in the PDF and the EPUB; a review of the structure and breaks for transcription, in the braille-ready edition; and a check of the narration against the canonical text, in the audio.

Publishing a file labelled accessible that does not live up to the label would contradict the purpose of this project. That is why a format’s status only changes to download once it has passed verification — and why the page prefers to state "Not started" rather than display a promise.

All four formats will derive from the same content source, with the same language and the same structure — in line with Recommendation 11 (Consistency of the resource). Anyone moving between the site, the PDF and the audio will find the same text, in the same order, under the same headings.

Verification, though, is not done alone: it requires more than one person, and preferably people other than those who produced the material — that is how the verification stage of the research itself was run, with eleven specialists. Building the materials follows the same principle, and is open to anyone who wants to take part.

Collaborate

Producing these materials is open to collaboration. We welcome help with writing and reviewing content, audio-describing the images and narrating the audio, braille transcription and review, and testing the files with assistive technology — each of these strands corresponds to a real step in the verification described above.

Collaboration is not limited to the materials: translating the content into other languages is equally welcome, as are partnerships with educational institutions, accessibility offices and research groups that would like to apply the recommendations and report back on the experience.

Collaborate with the project

The form asks for a name, an email and a description of the proposal. Every message is read by the project team and answered at the email address given.

How to cite

The content of this site and of the materials derives from the undergraduate final project that produced the 12 recommendations. To cite it in academic work, use the reference below, prepared in accordance with the Brazilian standard ABNT NBR 6023. The reference is given in Portuguese, the language of the original work — a citation names a work by the title under which it was published, so that it can be found.