Broadcasting Accessibility Fund unveils inaugural project grant recipients

OTTAWA - The Broadcasting Accessibility Fund will award $723,500 in grants to seven projects designed to advance accessibility to broadcasting content for Canadians with disabilities.The projects represent the first ever selected by the Board of Directors for grant awards. The inaugural recipients are:- Accessible Media Production Course, Mohawk College: $80,000 - Student journalists will receive mandatory, intensive training in producing content that is accessible across all media platforms.- Making CBC Radio Accessible, CBC: $62,000 - New speech-to-text conversion technology will be used to post daily transcripts of CBC’s award-winning radio program The Current to CBC.ca. The Current reaches some 2.3 million Canadians each week....