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<h1><b><font size="5" color="#1f4e79" face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">CTCAccess (belated) March/April Newsletter<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
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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">Apologies for the delay – it has been a chaotic couple of months. I hope this newsletter finds you well and your Spring quarter has
begun with a smooth start!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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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, newish <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="3" color="#1f4e79" face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://accesswa.blog/2018/03/13/suggested-read-2/">Suggested Read: When Accessibility Doesn’t Make It into the EDUCAUSE Top 10: Turn
It Up to 11<o:p></o:p></a></span></font></b></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="3" face="Calibri Light"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">I’m excited to announce that an article written by Amy Rovner (Shoreline), Tom Gibbons (previously at Bates
and South Seattle), and myself (SBCTC) has been published in EDUCAUSE Review: When Accessibility Doesn’t Make It into the EDUCAUSE Top 10: Turn It Up to 11 We wrote this article to draw attention to the fact that … <a href="https://accesswa.blog/2018/03/13/suggested-read-2/">Continue
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<h2 style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="3" color="#1f4e79" face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://accesswa.blog/2018/03/16/webinar-recordings-resources/">Accessibility Webinar Recordings & Resources<o:p></o:p></a></span></font></b></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="3" face="Calibri Light"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">I’m really excited to report that we had over 600 people from Washington State higher education institutions
and government agencies register for the Lunchtime Accessibility Webinar series! For anyone that missed the webinars or wants to revisit them, the recordings and resources for all seven webinars are now available: Accessibility Basics Accessibility Basics
Recording Accessibility … <a href="https://accesswa.blog/2018/03/16/webinar-recordings-resources/">Continue reading</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<h2 style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="3" color="#1f4e79" face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://accesswa.blog/2018/04/11/a-whirlwind-tour-of-a11y-conferences/">A Whirlwind Tour of A11y Conferences<o:p></o:p></a></span></font></b></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="3" face="Calibri Light"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">It’s conference season. Combine the dramatically changing weather with the weekly jaunt to another time zone/state/county,
and, if you’re like me, you celebrate coming out at the end of it all having not lost a phone charger, your favorite sweatshirt, or your sanity (or all three). So, in hopes of rooting myself back into my … <a href="https://accesswa.blog/2018/04/11/a-whirlwind-tour-of-a11y-conferences/">Continue
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<h2 style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="3" color="#1f4e79" face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://accesswa.blog/2018/04/11/quick-tip-table-in-canvas/">Quick Tip: Tables in Canvas<o:p></o:p></a></span></font></b></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="3" face="Calibri Light"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">While attending the WACC conference over spring break, I sat in on a workshop led by the amazing and talented
accessibility mavens, Amy Rover (of Shoreline) and Dawn Hawley (of Bellingham Technical College) about how to make Canvas courses more accessible. Towards the end of the workshop, Amy led us into the always oh-so-fun (not) … <a href="https://accesswa.blog/2018/04/11/quick-tip-table-in-canvas/">Continue
reading</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><font size="2" color="#404040" face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#404040;font-weight:bold">Jess Thompson</span></font></b><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" 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>
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<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
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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
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