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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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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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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. These tools are a great starting point for creating accessible designs.

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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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Diversity in Design: Inclusion Won’t Fix a Broken System

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The other day I attended an information session for a new initiative centered around increasing diversity in design. It was created and hosted by one of the largest design firms in the world, and because of their reputation and great PR team, the call was filled with designers, architects, and executives all ready to join the cause.

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Why You Should Do A Cost-Benefit Analysis Before Throwing Your Next Nonprofit Fundraising Event

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You later reach out multiple times with a variety of “touches” and “moves” designed to draw the donor closer. When it comes to individual giving, an acceptable cost-benefit ratio can depend on a range of factors: Your organization’s history, age, and size. raised ratio? The ratio of 4 to 1 does not look as good as 5 to 1.

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Making the Web Accessible: Color Choices

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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.