Alternate Format Business Technology Challenge | Employment and Social Development Canada

This program will fund eligible organizations that proposed solutions on the following:

1. Collaborate and/or partner with people with print disabilities/lived experience
2. Ensure that the product(s) is accessible to people with a wide range of disabilities;
3. Ensure that any materials that are produced using the resulting product conform to existing accessible publishing standards; and,
4. Ensure that any personal assistive technologies and/or software that are developed are affordable and intuitive.

In addtion, proposed solutions should:

1. Collaborate and/or partner with organization(s)/companies in the Canadian publishing industry;
2. Ensure that the accessible physical or digital materials that are produced are made available to consumers at a lower price to all other published materials; and,
3. Ensure that any accessible physical or digital materials that are produced are made available in a timelier fashion than what is currently offered (i.e., at the same time as all other materials; if not, within 1 weeks’ time).