Project Grant 19276443424

The Academy Foundation, on behalf of a national consortium of film archives and libraries, was awarded a $211,540 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312) to research and design a searchable online resource for underrepresented film collections. The grant-funded project will develop a dataset gathering individuals and film titles from secondary sources related to social, gender, racial, ethnic, ability, sexual...

The Academy Foundation, on behalf of a consortium of film archives and libraries, received a $1,589,350 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 45.312) to develop, test, and launch a free open access database and data sharing platform. This project aims to improve identification and access to underrepresented films and filmmakers across intersections of race, gender, ethnicity, ability, and sexuality in the nation's film collections. The database will...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded a $223,358 Project Grant to Puruli Kultur Sanat Dernegi, a non-profit organization, to support the 11th Accessible Film Festival 2023 in Ankara, Eskisehir, Istanbul, and online. The festival will showcase films from Turkish and world cinema with accessibility services such as audio descriptions and captioning to enhance equal participation in cultural life for visually and hearing impaired audiences. This grant is funded...

This $749,685 National Science Foundation project grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) will fund the development of an Automated, Integrated, Multimodal Software (AIMS) system to improve inclusive access to information for persons with disabilities. Saint Louis University leads a consortium that includes software companies Vital, Unar Labs, and Viewplus Technologies to build a unified framework for authoring, converting, and delivering accessible content...

The Brattleboro Museum and Art Center will enhance accessibility for people with disabilities through a $111,476 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301). Key activities include developing an accessible website with dedicated accessibility resources and inclusive online programming, as well as acquiring technology to facilitate inclusive interpretation of exhibits and accommodations for programs. Staff...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant, awarded to Lehigh University with a total funding of $219,642, aims to develop a community-driven framework and prototypes for digital accessibility mapping of indoor environments. The key products to be delivered include: An accessibility metadata schema and backend mapping database server for indoor maps. A robotic system for semi-autonomous exploration and baseline accessibility data...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) will fund research to advance accessible collaboration tools for visually impaired information workers. The $943,192 award to Northwestern University will: Develop a taxonomy of accessibility barriers and design guidelines for AI-powered collaboration tools to support ability-diverse team communication, coordination, and knowledge sharing. Create an accessible infrastructure of new...

The National Museum of Women in the Arts will undertake a $513,020 digital accessibility initiative through September 2024 with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301). As part of this project grant, the Museum will conduct an accessibility audit of its digital spaces, remediate inaccessible digital content, create new fully accessible digital and archival materials, and determine onsite digital accessibility needs....

This SBIR Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), aims to develop an automated digital accessibility testing and remediation platform for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) compliance. The $274,990 award to URL To IRL Inc., a minority-owned small business, will leverage artificial intelligence, computer vision, and source code analysis techniques to accurately identify and remediate...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $274,144 provides funding for the "Disability Culture and Technology" project being conducted by Vanderbilt University from May 1, 2022 through April 30, 2023. The goal of the project is to document how disabled individuals use remote access technologies to form communities and shape society, both during and before the COVID-19 pandemic. The project will build an archive of oral histories, images, videos and other documentation...