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Broadcasting Accessibility Fund awards $ 615,330 in fourth round of grants

OTTAWA - The Broadcasting Accessibility Fund will award $ 615,330 in grants to five new projects designed to advance accessibility to broadcasting content for Canadians with disabilities.These five new projects represent the completion of the Fund’s fourth round of grants, with a total of $2.5M over four rounds of funding committed to addressing ongoing gaps in broadcasting accessibility.The projects approved by the Board of Directors are:- NER Consumer Evaluator - Project Keeble Media Inc. - $156,000 the proposed project is designed to train and certify a number of deaf and hard of hearing consumers in the evaluation of NER – a...