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Making the Web Accessible: Color Choices

Media Cause

As we try to reach new audiences and engage with our audiences online, designing websites to be accessibility friendly to color blindness needs to be thought through with the same planning and care that we put into navigation and site structure. .

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Preparing Your Nonprofit to Move Beyond the Founder

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It can also mean a certain rigidity in how things unfold alongside a tendency to insist that things be done as you envision them, even when there are alternate routes that may play to the strengths of staff more successfully. In every organization, the fiscal structure changes as it grows, in ways that founders often fail to perceive.

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Designing an Accessible Nonprofit Website: FAQ + 3 Tips

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checklist recommends color contrast ratios of 4.5:1 For many organizations, the use case where maintaining these ratios is most difficult is when a photo is used as the background for text, as the image’s color variations create inconsistent contrast. The WCAG 2.1 1 for regular copy and 3:1 for headings or large text.

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20 Best Practices to Optimize Your Nonprofit Donation Page

Bloomerang

This section offers best practices for designing and structuring your online giving form. Include alternative text for images and captions for videos. Businesses usually match at a 1:1 ratio, but some match at a 2:1 or even 3:1 basis. Let’s get started. Optimizing your donation page design.

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11 Charity Auction Tips for Raising More Money

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Mobile bidding is a contemporary alternative to old-school silent auction bid sheets. To prevent either of these scenarios from occurring, structure your live auctions to be a little something like this: Give people time to ease into the bidding. Try to strike a ratio of three bottles to every five attendees. at your event.

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4 Best Practices for Accessible Nonprofit Website Design

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The generally recommended contrast ratios are 4.5:1 You can find a variety of tools online to help you check contrast ratios and test whether your website provides a positive user experience for colour blind audiences. To improve media file accessibility on your nonprofit’s website, make sure to: Add alternative text to images.

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NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Being mediators between vendors and nonprofits – to look at issues that are technological, and issues that are about personality, behavior and organizational structure and dynamics (on both sides) Looking at the bigger picture – how does what an organization does with technology affect the larger community, and the planet?

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