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3 Visual Design Tips to Strengthen Your Nonprofit Website

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Annual filing requirements To strengthen your visual design, you need to adhere to web accessibility best practices. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) created and maintains international standards for web accessibility, known as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

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Four Nonprofit Web Accessibility Best Practices for 2022

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Recent court cases have found that if charges are filed against a nonprofit for not being accessible, they can be required to bring their site up to par from an accessibility standpoint. The accessibility guidelines used to determine a website’s ADA compliance are set by the Worldwide Web Consortium. Live captions.

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Addressing Accessibility in Social Media

NTEN

Photographs are likely the most common form of media added to your site—and likely the ones whose accessibility guidelines you are familiar with the most—but this category also includes videos, audio files, and downloadable documents. Prepare guidelines: Explain why these additional fields are required during content capture.

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Social Learning Isn't Just for Kids: Learning in Public at Conferences and Workshops

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They've set up some fabulous training materials and guidelines for the capture team. Twitter Training Notes and Audio File. Flip Cam Training Training Video , and Audio File. Overview of Launch Meeting. Deployment Packet. Agenda with Twitter IDs.

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5 Ways to Use Data Storytelling for Advocacy

Tech Soup

Online Guidelines and Handbook. Users can add text, videos, images, audio files, Twitter feeds, PDFs, and more. The image gallery is visually high-impact, and details on every person killed by law enforcement are noted on a datacard, providing information surrounding his or her death.

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ADA Lawsuits Against Website Owners Are Increasing: Mitigate Risk By Making Your Site Web Accessible

Byte Technology

According to law firm Seyfarth Shaw, its researchers counted a whopping 5,592 ADA Title III lawsuit filings within the first six months of 2019! Today, despite the growth in lawsuits over several years, federal website accessibility guidelines don’t exist yet. AA standards, which includes captioning and audio description requirements.

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A Guide to Storytelling for Nonprofits & Digital Marketing

DNL OmniMedia

Just as you carefully crafted your nonprofit’s branding guidelines to convey your organization’s mission and values, you want to take equivalent consideration when writing your nonprofit’s story. If your story includes other digital media assets, such as audio files or infographics, include those in your content library as well.