Digital Humanities; Deafness; Hearing-impairment; Inclusive education; Digital accessibility.
Digital humanities, deafness, hearing impairment and digital and communicational accessibility.
The year 2020 will be a milestone in world history due to the illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, Covid-19. Isolation policies have been implemented to put a brake on the spread of the disease. Consequently, the brazilian education, under the guidance of ordinance nº 343 of March 17, 2020, substituted face-to-face classes by online classes carried out on digital platforms. Therefore, this research addresses the issues of inclusive education from the perspective of Digital Humanities, checking the promotion of accessibility of technological resources used by deaf and hearing-impaired students during the period of online classes at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro. The term Digital Humanities has been gaining visibility in the academic ambience for being an interdisciplinary research field. The choice of qualitative approach is related to the investigation carried out in real context on the social sphere. Through the case study method, we were able to gather data from a semi-structured questionnaire in which the questions were asked and answered in an interview granted to us by the subjects of this research. With the aid of the ATLAS.ti software, which uses the analytical methods of Bardin (2011), we analyzed the data from two resources made available in this program, networks and words cloud. After systematizing the data, we evidenced that the participation of deaf students in online classes was possible, however, imbued with many difficulties regarding accessibility and that the presence of the Libras interpreter is not a guarantee to make this issue effective. For students with hearing impairment, accessibility was only possible with the help of assistive technologies associated with digital platforms.