If you are using Canva to create flyers, newsletters, or other documents that will be distributed electronically, it's important to make sure they are accessible so that everyone who receives them can read them. Historically, this has been difficult or impossible to do well, but Canva has recently introduced some very useful accessibility tools.
My presentation for this year's Professional Development Day on accessibility basics, including an overview of recent Title II changes, an NVDA screen reader demo, and how and why to properly set up alt text, headings, descriptive links, and other accessibility basics.
Canva and similar online document creation tools produce inaccessible PDF files. While they can still be useful for creating smaller single-page graphics to be used in email marketing or print-only flyers, they are not recommended for more complex multi-page PDF documents being distributed electronically. I recommend using Word and its accessibility features (or, if you have the knowledge, Adobe InDesign) to create documents being distributed electronically.
