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Dear Moby, What does Email Accessibility look like?    

Whole Whale

Provide Alternative Text for Images Include descriptive alternative text (alt text) for images in your emails. Alt text is read by screen readers and provides a textual description of the image for individuals who are blind or visually impaired. add a “ view in a browser ” link option as above email’s header) 8.

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3 Visual Design Tips to Strengthen Your Nonprofit Website

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For example, users with visual impairments may not be able to see an image of a beneficiary on your homepage, but an alternative text description helps them understand what the given image is and how it relates to the rest of your content. Limit distractions: Avoid unnecessary pop-ups, animations, and flashing content.

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4 Steps To Assessing Your Data Protection Plan

TechImpact

Image courtesy of GRT Corp. external hard drives and flash drives), the source you backup to matters. Because nonprofits deal with donor, volunteer, partner, sponsor information, and market and social data, a sustainable backup solution is essential to maintaining these resources over time. How do you backup your data?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Of course, just as we're solving the text problem, more and more content is moving to richer, more visual forms like graphics, simulations and flash! We are also building a content model for making images more accessible. I saw an initial demonstration of a web-based image description tool, called Poet.

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5 Tips for Marketing Your Charity Golf Tournament Online

Nonprofits Source

Add alt text to images, avoid flashing colors and illegible text, and properly use headings to organize content. You can also use high-contrast colors in the site’s design, avoid abbreviations and misspellings that might cause screen readers to mispronounce words, and use captions for images with embedded text.

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3 Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Should Use Vine And Instagram

TechImpact

Image courtesy of Ciniva Web Agency. They were born into a world saturated with technology, flashing lights and sounds, and commercials aiming for the “shock factor.” These 11 million young users, mostly between the ages of 13-17, have fled to the more niche social media platforms that cater to simpler image and video posting.

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Four Nonprofit Web Accessibility Best Practices for 2022

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A screen reader or other assistive device won’t be able to interpret what an image is depicting unless you include text alternatives for the device to interpret. All images that provide meaningful information to users should include either descriptive alternative text or a caption. Clean up forms.