{"id":28574,"date":"2021-12-06T17:05:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T22:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/le-fonds-pour-laccessibilite-de-la-radiodiffusion-accorde-une-subvention-au-crim-pour-la-realisation-dun-projet\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T12:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:22:14","slug":"le-fonds-pour-laccessibilite-de-la-radiodiffusion-accorde-une-subvention-au-crim-pour-la-realisation-dun-projet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/en\/le-fonds-pour-laccessibilite-de-la-radiodiffusion-accorde-une-subvention-au-crim-pour-la-realisation-dun-projet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Broadcast Enabling Accessibility Fund awards a grant to CRIM for a project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 3, <strong>the Broadcast Accessibility Fund<\/strong> (BAF) announced funding for four innovative projects to address significant gaps in broadcast accessibility. CRIM is pleased to be one of the recipients. This funding from the Fund will help advance our work in the area of accessibility.<\/p>\n<p>CRIM&#8217;s <strong>VD-Qual project &#8211; Assistant \u00e0 la r\u00e9daction de vid\u00e9odescription en fran\u00e7ais et en anglais<\/strong> &#8211; will receive a grant of $134,405. The VD-Qual project aims to create a series of diagnostic and correction tools for videodescription texts to improve their quality in English and French. CRIM intends to deploy a demonstration version of VD-Qual on an accessible website, enabling users to submit a videodescription, either in plain text or with timestamps, view a featured videodescription and download the results for personal use.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10885\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/baf-far-logo-colour-RGB-website-header-300x89.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/baf-far-logo-colour-RGB-website-header-300x89.png 300w, https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/baf-far-logo-colour-RGB-website-header-768x228.png 768w, https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/baf-far-logo-colour-RGB-website-header.png 858w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baf-far.ca\/fr\/communiqu%C3%A9s-de-presse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the press release<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/baf-far.ca\/fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more about the Broadcast Accessibility Fund<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 3, the Broadcast Accessibility Fund (BAF) announced funding for four innovative projects to address significant gaps in broadcast accessibility. CRIM is pleased to be one of the recipients. This funding from the Fund will help advance our work in the area of accessibility. CRIM&#8217;s VD-Qual project &#8211; Assistant \u00e0 la r\u00e9daction de vid\u00e9odescription [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":9474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[63,65,68,592],"class_list":["post-28574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-digital-accessbility","tag-inclusion-en","tag-technology","tag-video-description"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28757,"href":"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28574\/revisions\/28757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}