Resumo:

The volume of book production with braille text in Brazil has increased significantly in the last few years. Nonetheless, the data collected point to a context still lacking in mechanisms that allow access to them, considering the population with visual impairment. According to the latest demographic census by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), in 2010, around 45.6 million Brazilians, which amount to 23.9% of the population, presented some sort of incapacity or impairment. Among them, almost 530 thousand declared themselves blind and 6 million, with great seeing difficulties. Of the total, 5% were children, 10% young people, 48% adults and 37% elderly.