[Athen] [EXTERNAL] Re: Publicate Newsletter tool

[Heather Mariger]

Thanks so much - that is really helpful...

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*

503.589.7832

*****************
*Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to
dance. *
Verna Myers, author and speaker





On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 6:47 PM Top Tech Tidbits <enews at toptechtidbits.com>
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> Hello Heather,

>

>

>

> 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

> *To:* The EDUCAUSE IT Accessibility Community Group Listserv <

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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*

>

>

>

> 503.589.7832

>

>

>

> *****************

>

> *Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to

> dance. *

>

> Verna Myers, author and speaker

>

>

>

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