[Athen] Accessible Newsletter programs and templates

[JORDISON_SHAWN via athen-list]

Venngage is where its at for now in my opinion.

Mailchimp has many known issues with the buttons and labels specifically. I cant wait to get away from PDFs :)


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On May 29, 2025 at 8:54 AM PDT athen-list at u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list at u.washington.edu> wrote:


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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



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