[Athen] Accessible Newsletter programs and templates

[Robert Beach via athen-list]

This may not help, but we have taken the PDF created by Canva and run it through ABBYY to create an accessible PDF of the flyer.


Robert Lee Beach, Assistive Technology Specialist
Kansas City Kansas Community College
rbeach at kckcc.edu<mailto:rbeach at kckcc.edu>
913-288-7671

From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman22.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Monica Olsson via athen-list
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2025 10:52 AM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list at u.washington.edu>
Subject: [Athen] Accessible Newsletter programs and templates

Hi all,

A colleague used Canva to create a newsletter and their director is asking them to reformat it into an accessible format! (Win!) I know that Venngage<https://venngage.com/> offers a more accessible alternative to Canva and I plan to share that with their team, but hope to share other resources as well.

What programs or products do you use or have learned to a good job building accessible newsletters? This team would like to use something more robust than Word. Publisher has Newsletter templates - what do we think of something like that?

Thoughts on MailChimp or other such communications technologies?






Monica M. Olsson (she/her/hers)

Policy Associate - Accessible IT Coordinator

Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

*Email: molsson at sbctc.edu<mailto:molsson at sbctc.edu> * Phone: 360-704-3922



The power of the Web is in its universality.

Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.

Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web
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