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Hi all,</div>
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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/" id="OWA40ea0eb1-1283-db51-a034-2a5c83b44045" class="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);">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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