[Athen] Accessible Newsletter programs and templates

[Joshua Hori via athen-list]

Are they exporting a PNG or PDF?

If they’re exporting PNG, then it’s probably an infographic of the newsletter which they’re sharing as a social media post and pasting into emails. If it’s a PDF, then it’s an email attachment.

While I have used LinkedIn articles as a newsletter of sorts, I’ve been looking for something more robust. Medium and Substack comes up often and I’ve been playing with published Notion documents as well (There’s even a Notion templates that focus on newsletters). The great thing about Notion is that it’s Markdown! (Obsidian users, rejoice!!)

I’ve discussed using AI to make marketing content more accessible in a LinkedIn Article, my “newsletter”: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/using-ai-assist-making-accessible-content-joshua-hori-qynhc/

In the article, I discuss making images of tables into accessible HTML and submitting marketing materials for descriptions and alt tags. People will lose interest in Canva as Fooocus becomes popular. Yes, 3 O’s there. Fooo cus. It’s what I use when I want to generate images with specific styles attached. I love my steampunk and retro neon switches in Fooocus.

Best,

Joshua Hori
Accessible Technology Coordinator
Information Educational Technology
Academic Technology Services
50 Hutchison Dr.
Davis, CA 95616
530-752-2439
Schedule a meeting via Calendly<https://calendly.com/d/ytt-hsj-vbn>




From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman22.u.washington.edu> on behalf of Monica Olsson via athen-list <athen-list at u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 8:53 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



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Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.

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