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A Guide to Email Accessibility Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By designing emails with clear and well-structured content, nonprofit organizations can ensure that everyone can engage in important conversations, receive essential information, and participate in your mission. Here are three areas where you’ll want to check for accessibility.

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How to Follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines: Resources for Nonprofit Design

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As a designer for nonprofits, I constantly reference these guidelines when making design decisions. Now that you’ve gotten familiar with WCAG, I want to share some resources that have helped me comply with these guidelines when making design decisions. Image of contrast checker dashboard on WebAIM.org). Contrast Checker.

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What is UX Design and How Can Understanding it Benefit Your Nonprofit

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UX or “User Experience” refers to designing while prioritizing the user and the way in which they interact with your product. For consumer-driven brands and nonprofits alike, understanding what UX design is is crucial for the online experience of your audience. For example: Messaging and design go hand in hand for UX.

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Website Design for NGOs: 5 Essential Strategies

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But your website won’t get your organization very far if it’s poorly designed. Optimizing your site’s design will give your organization the best chance of engaging supporters online. . All you need is an easy-to-use website builder, or content management system (CMS), and an understanding of a few web design strategies.

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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. . It’s important to design with accessibility in mind at the outset of a project.

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Does Your Nonprofit Need a Website Revamp? How to Tell

Top Nonprofits

Once you’ve determined if your website needs to be reexamined, review the best nonprofit websites available once more, using their design as inspiration for your new and improved website. For example, if you haven’t reviewed and refreshed your content strategy in ten years, then your website design may also look outdated.

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Don’t Panic: Common WordPress Errors and How to Fix Them (Part One)

Byte Technology

Whether it’s the “white screen of death,” an inability to properly upload an image or an unintended redirect or continuous page load, these situations can be nerve wracking, especially for those people who aren’t sure how to fix them and find themselves needing to call in expert reinforcements. Image Upload Problems.

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