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<h1><b><font size="5" color="#1f3864" face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">CTCAccess February Newsletter</span></font></b><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></font></h1>
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<p><font size="3" face="Calibri Light"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The goal of this listserv is to share accessibility related announcements, events, tips/tricks, resources, and success stories to those interested (no matter your role). A newsletter will
be sent to members of the listserv monthly. This newsletter is a digest of posts from the shiny, new <a href="http://accesswa.blog" id="LPlnk74908"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">AccessWA blog</span></font></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<h2 style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="4" color="#2f5496" face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Listserv Love</span></font></b><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></font></h2>
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<font size="3" face="Calibri Light"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I credit a lot of my accessibility know-how to a variety of listservs. Want to dive into even larger communities of practice around accessibility? Check out them out: AccessibleIT – Promoting
Accessible IT in Higher Education, managed by UW, populated with disability services and IT professionals interested in increasing the accessibility of IT in postsecondary … </span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://accesswa.blog/2018/01/19/listserv-love/">Continue
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<span class="Heading2Char"><b><font size="4" color="#2f5496" face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">QM Standard 8 Training</span></font></b></span><br>
SBCTC will cover QM Standard 8: Addressing Accessibility & Usability workshop for community and technical college faculty. <a href="https://accesswa.blog/2018/01/22/qm-standard-8-training/" id="LPlnk153259"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Continue
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<span class="Heading2Char"><b><font size="4" color="#2f5496" face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Quick Tip: Word</span></font></b></span><br>
Vision Australia’s Document Accessibility Toolbar (DAT) makes creating accessible Word documents incredibly easy. The main feature of this toolbar is that it puts all of the accessibility tools from Word into one place. This prevents you from having to bounce
around and track down all of the great accessibility tools that are built into Word. Now, … <a href="https://accesswa.blog/2018/01/25/quick-tip-2/" id="LPlnk630908"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Continue reading Quick
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<span class="Heading2Char"><b><font size="4" color="#2f5496" face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Suggested Read<br>
</span></font></b></span>Accessibility: A Shared Campus Responsibility Best Accomplished with Executive Support On Monday a great article came out in EDUCAUSE’s 2018 Top 10 IT Issues issue – Accessibility: A Shared Campus Responsibility Best Accomplished with
Executive Support. Funny, though, accessibility – yet again – is not listed as one of the top 10 IT issues…[eye roll] I’ve posted … <a href="https://accesswa.blog/2018/01/31/suggested-read/" title="https://accesswa.blog/2018/01/31/suggested-read/
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<span class="Heading2Char"><b><font size="4" color="#2f5496" face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Quick Tip: Outlook</span></font></b></span><br>
While preparing for a webinar on accessible email, I came across an amazing feature in Outlook for Office 365: I can adjust my settings to let others in my agency know that I prefer to receive accessible content. This notice appears above the email, similar
to when you’re notified that one of your recipients has … <a href="https://accesswa.blog/2018/02/19/quick-tip-outlook/" id="LPlnk368334"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Continue reading Quick Tip: Outlook</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri Light"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Do you have a topic you want to see addressed? Want to write for the AccessWa blog? Tell us about your ideas, tips, resources, and successes. <a href="https://accesswa.blog/share/" id="LPlnk732324"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Share
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