[Athen] Publicate Newsletter tool

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My name is Aaron Di Blasi and I am the Publisher for the Top Tech Tidbits (https://www.toptechtidbits.com/) and Access Information News (https://www.accessinformationnews.com/) weekly newsletters. While I cannot provide you with any direct information or experience around Publicate, specifically, I can share with you some of what we have learned in serving an accessible newsletter to a worldwide audience on a weekly basis. The most important thing to understand where newsletters are concerned is that “accessible” is not a Boolean value. It is instead a scale from 1 (completely inaccessible) to 10 (fully accessible and easy for AT users to use). And 10 is very difficult to achieve with any off-the-shelf email newsletter product that I know of today. Which is why we code our own. And incorporate feedback from AT users along the way. Using this process we have crafted an email newsletter template over the years that is not only fully accessible, but is also incredibly fast and easy for AT users to navigate. Something that you simply cannot achieve today without coding the email newsletter template yourself. That said, I fully realize that not everyone can entertain this possibility, but I wanted to mention it simply because it still provides an important frame of reference. We use the Constant Contact platform to serve all of our email newsletters using a custom coded template. Outside of custom, much of your email newsletter’s accessibility will be determined by the template you choose, which will have been created by your platform provider, and will almost certainly be unable to be edited by you. Which puts your accessibility at the mercy of the template you choose. And often finds you in the position of trying to make their template accessible through ticket submission. That, at least, has been our experience. I sincerely hope it helps in your search for an accessible email newsletter product.

 

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From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Heather Mariger
Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2022 8:53 PM
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Subject: [Athen] Publicate Newsletter tool

 

Greetings,

 

Happy Holidays!  Wasn't it July about 10 minutes ago?

 

Sorry for the cross-posting but I was hoping that someone may be able to share some information about how accessible newsletters made with Publicate are. 

 

We are working on starting a newsletter from our department and I want to make sure that we are being as inclusive as possible.

 

If you have any information or experience with Publicate, I would really appreciate hearing about it.

 

Thanks,

H.

 

Heather Mariger

Digital Accessibility Advocate

Pronouns: She/Her

 

Center for Academic Innovation

Chemeketa Community College

4000 Lancaster Drive NE - 9/126A

Salem, OR 97305

 

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