<div dir="auto"><div>I would try to push everything through the text scanner of Adobe and then add alt text in Adobe to images.</div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b>Elizabeth Killinger</b><br><i>Associate Coordinator</i><br><i>FIT-ABLE | Office of Disability Services<br>Fashion Institute of Technology</i><br>David Dubinsky Student Center, A570<div>Phone: 212.217.4090<br>Website: <a href="http://fitnyc.edu/fitable" target="_blank">fitnyc.edu/fitable</a></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 29, 2025, 11:52 AM Monica Olsson via athen-list <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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="m_-3761038826107509263OWA40ea0eb1-1283-db51-a034-2a5c83b44045" title="https://venngage.com/" style="color:blue;margin:0px" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">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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<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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