[Athen] [EXT] Accessible Newsletter programs and templates

[ELIZABETH KILLINGER via athen-list]

I would try to push everything through the text scanner of Adobe and then
add alt text in Adobe to images.

*Elizabeth Killinger*
*Associate Coordinator*

*FIT-ABLE | Office of Disability ServicesFashion Institute of Technology*
David Dubinsky Student Center, A570
Phone: 212.217.4090
Website: fitnyc.edu/fitable

On Thu, May 29, 2025, 11:52 AM Monica Olsson via athen-list <
athen-list at u.washington.edu> wrote:


> 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?

>

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> *Monica M. Olsson (she/her/hers)*

>

> Policy Associate – Accessible IT Coordinator

>

> Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

>

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

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>

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> *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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