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We are beginning to shift to Adobe Express from Canva. So far, find it easier to make accessible using Adobe Professional.</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 29, 2025 11:52:00 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list@u.washington.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Athen] Accessible Newsletter programs and templates</font>
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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
<span style="color:blue"><u><a href="https://venngage.com/" originalsrc="https://venngage.com/" id="OWA40ea0eb1-1283-db51-a034-2a5c83b44045" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://venngage.com/" data-linkindex="6" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color:blue; margin:0px">Venngage</a></u></span> offers
a more accessible alternative to Canva and I plan to share that with their team, but hope to share other resources as well.</div>
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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? </div>
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Thoughts on MailChimp or other such communications technologies?</div>
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<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","Avenir Next Condensed",sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,32,96)"><b>Monica M. Olsson (she/her/hers)</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","Avenir Next Condensed",sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,32,96)">Policy Associate – Accessible IT Coordinator</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","Avenir Next Condensed",sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,32,96)">Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges</span></p>
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Phone: 360-704-3922</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(36,36,36)"><b><i>The power of the Web is in its universality.</i></b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(36,36,36)"><b><i>Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.</i></b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(36,36,36)">Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web</span></p>
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