Proceso evaluativo del material cartográfico temático táctil para alumnos con discapacidad visual y auditiva

Abstract

The visually and hearing impaired users represent a special universe around the world, who need access to information, in this specific case information that is related to environmental problems and their manifestation in various regional pro- cesses such as melting glaciers among others. 

The power to represent the spatial relationships between humans and their natu- ral environment is a major challenge with which to achieve the formation of the image mental perception of the average real places and problems. The map helps this as it is an abstraction of what happens in reality in the environmental area, their features and their distributions. 

All tactile map product adaptation involves one visual map to provide infor- mation by touch, step that involves a series of steps that are basic recitals to make a tactile mapping, where the end-user features are a major factor importance. 

In this process, the evaluation of map products is fundamental because it allows us to check on adaptation achieved its goal of providing information to people who are blind or deaf, if they differ not only textures, shapes, colors between other as- pects also seeks to determine whether the user-understood conceptual part of each of the representations.