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<p class="MsoNormal">Good morning,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am being asked to look at two elements on our website and give my opinion, which I am happy to do – but I prefer to seek out expert advice in an effort of due diligence and to ensure my opinion is up-to-date… any thoughts you all have
would be very much appreciated!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our marketing folks post an online newsletter in something like Issue or Flipsnack which makes a fancy, graphic heavy, inaccessible “magazine” that users can “flip” through on the page. However, an accessible PDF download is offered.
I am calling this an “accessible alternative” and should therefore be fine, but our marketing folks are still a little concerned (which I am grateful for, since they are thinking about accessibility!).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We have an online advent calendar with each day being a link to new content. Each of these pages has varying degrees of accessibility (being worked on), but one of the days is a game where the school’s mascot uses a jetpack to fly through
gaps in candy cane walls with points for length of survival (well….that is probably the strangest thing I have typed in a while…). Clearly this is not accessible to an individual who is blind, how would you address this?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#387DA9;text-transform:uppercase">JASON VARNADO</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#387DA9">Associate Director, Disability Access</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7D7D7D">Center for Student Academic Success</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#9D9C9C">PHONE</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#8A8A8A">(509) 313-4034<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:gray"><a href="http://www.gonzaga.edu/disabilityaccess"><span style="color:gray">www.gonzaga.edu/disabilityaccess</span></a></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#387DA9">Center for Student Academic Success - “<i>Empowering Students to become Active and Independent learners in their own academic success</i>.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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