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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri Light"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">A nice article just came out about some friends at Chico State who are tackling accessibility (those at Bellevue might recognize Jeremy).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri Light"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">The article has a focus on how Ally has helped them, one of my favorite quotes being “you can’t manage what you do not measure”. Definitely
makes me think about how to measure progress in our system, aside from just looking at Ally scores. I’d be curious to hear other ideas about measuring progress towards a more accessible system. In the meantime, the article:
<a href="https://elearnmagazine.com/technology-helped-chico-state-automate-way-accessibility/">
How Technology Helped Chico State Automate Its Way to Accessibility</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri Light"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Jess<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="1" color="#404040" face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#404040">Program Administrator, Accessible Technology Initiatives</span></font><font size="3" color="#212121" face="Segoe UI"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="1" color="#404040" face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#404040">Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges</span></font><font size="3" color="#212121" face="Segoe UI"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="1" color="#404040" face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#404040">1300 Quince St SE | PO Box 42495 | Olympia, WA 98504</span></font><font size="3" color="#212121" face="Segoe UI"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="1" color="#404040" face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#404040">p: 360.704.4327|c: 253.229.8591</span></font><font size="3" color="#212121" face="Segoe UI"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="2" color="#212121" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121"><a href="mailto:jess.thompson@sbctc.edu" target="_blank"><font size="1" color="blue" face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:blue">jess.thompson@sbctc.edu</span></font></a></span></font><font size="1" color="#404040" face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#404040"> | </span></font><font color="#212121"><span style="color:#212121"><a href="http://www.sbctc.edu/" target="_blank"><font size="1" color="blue" face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:blue">www.sbctc.edu</span></font></a>
</span></font><font size="1" color="#404040" face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#404040">|</span></font><font size="1" color="#212121" face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#212121"><a href="https://accesswa.blog/"><font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">https://accesswa.blog/</span></font></a></span></font><font size="3" color="#212121" face="Segoe UI"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="2" color="#212121" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KXjxctpTAa2R06iRksMrjaeiCkphAJzqkwX-awvJh9g/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><font size="1" color="blue" face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:blue">Current
Projects</span></font></a> </span></font><font size="3" color="#212121" face="Segoe UI"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Keep in the accessibility loop by joining the
<a href="https://goo.gl/forms/CP1GHPl6Pe1ipD6q1"><font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">CTC Accessibility listserv</span></font></a>!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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