Microsoft Announces Grant to Support Accessibility Research and Development

Microsoft Corp. announced the creation of a new international grant program to support research and product development initiatives that make PC technology more accessible and effective for people with disabilities. The new program, Exploring PC Accessibility: New Discoveries, was introduced during a presentation by Microsoft’s accessibility group before the United Nations, in conjunction with the U.N.’s International Day of Disabled Persons on December 3, 1998.

Microsoft will award one-year grants of up to $50,000 cash to educational or not-for-profit organizations that are developing accessibility technologies to be placed in the public domain. A total of $250,000 will be distributed through this program.

The Exploring PC Accessibility: New Discoveries grant also is intended to increase the knowledge base of all groups dedicated to improving accessibility of PC technology and to facilitate the dissemination of new accessibility concepts and products. Perhaps most important, the grant will provide an opportunity for those in the accessibility field to share new thinking.

Applications for Exploring PC Accessibility: New Discoveries grants must be submitted on or before Feb. 12, 1999. Information about the grant program and application process can be obtained from Microsoft’s Accessibility Home Page at <http://www.microsoft.com/enable/grants/default.htm>

Award winners will be announced March 16, 1999 at the annual Technology and Persons With Disabilities Conference, hosted by California State University Northridge in Los Angeles.

Source: Microsoft Corp. (December 3, 1988). Press Release. [Online]. Available: <http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1998/Dec98/AccGrantPr.asp> [Updated 3/31/03]

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