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<div>Venngage is where its at for now in my opinion. </div>
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<div>Mailchimp has many known issues with the buttons and labels specifically. I cant wait to get away from PDFs :)</div>
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On May 29, 2025 at 8:54 AM PDT <a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
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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
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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); background-color: white;">•Email:
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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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