Accessible Digital Content

Esperanza Villalobos-Nye, accessibility program lead at the Society of Accessible Design Professionals and co-author of the Digital Accessibility Safe Harbor comments, teaches this course ahead of NANA's own portal accessibility audit, scheduled for May 2027. Associations that wait for a complaint to find their accessibility gaps are already behind; this course is built around checking the content types a membership team publishes every week.

Auditing an email newsletter template for heading order, color contrast, and link text that makes sense out of context, using the checks a screen reader relies on to move through a page in order.

Fixing the two most common problems in association PDFs built from page-layout software: missing alt text on images and a reading order that doesn't match the visual layout, both easy to miss without a dedicated check.

Adding accurate, synchronized captions to a recorded board meeting or member webinar, and why auto-generated captions alone don't meet WCAG 2.2 AA without a human edit pass.

Testing a member portal or event registration page without a mouse, the way Esperanza Villalobos-Nye demonstrates live in the session, to catch focus traps before a member does.

Communications, membership, and digital staff who publish newsletters, PDFs, or video, particularly ahead of any portal or website accessibility review. Chapter staff preparing their own materials for a national audit also benefit. Register before NANA's own May 2027 portal audit so a team has time to act on what the course flags. Pairs with the Accessible Digital Content Checklist.

• Check a newsletter template for heading structure and color-contrast compliance

• Add alt text and reading order to a PDF built from a page-layout tool

• Caption a recorded webinar to WCAG 2.2 AA standard

• Test a page for keyboard-only navigation without a mouse