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It's the Equal Access Public Media Spring Fund Drive and you can help by spreading the word about EAPM. Do you support EAPM - or one of our projects such as The Word, the EAPM Style and Accessibility Guide, or journalist accessibility skills training? Share your reason why you've donated or volunteered!
It's our Spring Fund Drive — and instead of asking our current donors for more funds, we're asking you to spread the word about us.
Today, we'd like you to tell others why you support www.equalaccesspublicmedia.org.
I'm not just the founder and chief of editorial and projects, I'm also a supporter! And I support EAPM because I know what it's like to need flexibility and to use adaptive tech — and for news and newsrooms not to be available to me.
It's the Equal Access Public Media Spring Fund Drive and you can help by spreading the word about EAPM. Do you support EAPM - or one of our projects such as The Word, the EAPM Style and Accessibility Guide, or journalist accessibility skills training? Share your reason why you've donated or volunteered!
It's our Spring Fund Drive — and instead of asking our current donors for more funds, we're asking you to spread the word about us.
Today, we'd like you to tell others why you support www.equalaccesspublicmedia.org.
It's the Equal Access Public Media Spring Fund Drive, and you can help by spreading the word about EAPM. Equal Access Public Media • Focuses on improving accessibility in the journalism industry and public-facing news products. • Is a nonprofit in the public interest. • Funded almost entirely by small-dollar donors. • Trains journalists in accessible skills. • Built projects including The Word magazine and the EAPM Style and Accessibility Guide.
You may have heard it's our Spring Fund Drive. You probably also heard that we're not asking our donors to give money again.
Instead we're asking you to talk about us. So we thought you might like to have the facts about us.
(And please share our website, too! www.equalaccesspublicmedia.org)
You know we love to see it!
Thank you to all the people who recently donated to support The Word!
We also are excited to see so many people sign up to receive our new "behind-the-news" newsletter, The Word: Etymology!
Thank you so much!
the-word.news/support/
Actress Lizza Minelli and Kermit the Frog in the whisper campaign scene from Sardi's in The Muppets Take Manhattan
This April is our annual Spring Fund Drive.
Except we're not asking our current donors for funds.
Instead, we're taking a page from Kermit the Frog in his role as Kermit the Frog in "The Muppets Take Manhattan." We want you to help us with a sort of "whisper campaign."
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Our goal this April is to get you, as current donors and supporters, to help get others to find us and donate to us. So here's what you can do:
1. Talk about why you support us (a lot).
2. Link to us and our projects (a lot).
3. Casually work us into conversation (a lot).
Let's do this!
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If you aren't subscribed to get the EAPM newsletter in your inbox, don't worry! We post it online too.
equalaccesspublicmedia.org/april-newsle...
Hey EAPM donors and supporters! You may have heard it's our Spring Fund Drive. Did you know we're not asking you to donate again? Nope. We're asking you to spread the word about us instead.
You can read our entire wacky plan in this months newsletter.
equalaccesspublicmedia.org/april-newsle...
When the 2026 WebAIM Million report was released last week, it showed an increase in accessibility errors — one the report attributed to increased use of AI in coding.
@akinyelemichael.bsky.social digs in.
the-word.news/2026/0402/ac...
Text reads 1 mission: Accessibility in news. We break down barriers for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses, people who are neurodivergent, for veterans and caregivers, and people with low literacy so more people get news and more people like us are in newsrooms. 4 projects: Accessibility in action. • the EAPM Style and Accessibility Guide • training for journalists, media outlets and news organizations • The Word magazine • the National Tab (coming soon) equalaccesspublicmedia.org
One mission. Four projects.
https://equalaccesspublicmedia.org
Sure we're a niche magazine. But we're a niche magazine published by a great organization.
It's the Equal Access Public Media Spring Fund Drive, and you can help by spreading the word about EAPM. Equal Access Public Media • Focuses on improving accessibility in the journalism industry and public-facing news products. • Is a nonprofit in the public interest. • Funded almost entirely by small-dollar donors. • Trains journalists in accessible skills. • Built projects including The Word magazine and the EAPM Style and Accessibility Guide.
You may have heard it's our Spring Fund Drive. You probably also heard that we're not asking our donors to give money again.
Instead we're asking you to talk about us. So we thought you might like to have the facts about us.
(And please share our website, too! www.equalaccesspublicmedia.org)
Did you check out the April edition of The Word yet?
Good news! It's fresh all month!
Check out the cover story by @bethmccowen.bsky.social on the inspiration porn in Paralympic coverage and a deep dive into how student media will be affected by Title II by @thewritestuff0.bsky.social.
Did you know that you can get a behind-the-news perspective every month from The Word? Sign up for our monthly newsletter on our website.
the-word.news
We're so excited that April's edition has an article by journalist @thewritestuff0.bsky.social about how student media may be affected by the looming DOJ Title II accessibility deadline for government websites.
the-word.news/2026/0402/st...
Hey EAPM donors and supporters! You may have heard it's our Spring Fund Drive. Did you know we're not asking you to donate again? Nope. We're asking you to spread the word about us instead.
You can read our entire wacky plan in this months newsletter.
equalaccesspublicmedia.org/april-newsle...
Are you reading @the-word.news? Our magazine — only a few months old — focuses on the intersection of journalism and accessibility.
Oh, and like most of what we do, we've produced every issue so far thanks to small-dollar donors.
#EqualAccessPublicMedia #EAPM #NewsForAll
If you aren't subscribed to get the EAPM newsletter in your inbox, don't worry! We post it online too.
equalaccesspublicmedia.org/april-newsle...
April's cover story from @bethmccowen.bsky.social: a one-on-one with @laurahoward.bsky.social about covering the Paralympics, ableism, and inspiration porn.
the-word.news/2026/0402/pa...
New! @akinyelemichael.bsky.social looks at the newly released 2026 WebAIM Million report and the AI generated websites.
the-word.news/2026/0402/ac...
New! Journalist Jason Collins digs into how the looming Title II accessibility deadline for government websites could affect student media outlets.
the-word.news/2026/0402/st...
New! @akinyelemichael.bsky.social takes on accessibility overlays in his monthly column.
the-word.news/2026/0402/ac...
Are you reading @the-word.news? The April issue is out today!
Our goal this April is to get you, as current donors and supporters, to help get others to find us and donate to us. So here's what you can do:
1. Talk about why you support us (a lot).
2. Link to us and our projects (a lot).
3. Casually work us into conversation (a lot).
Let's do this!
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Actress Lizza Minelli and Kermit the Frog in the whisper campaign scene from Sardi's in The Muppets Take Manhattan
This April is our annual Spring Fund Drive.
Except we're not asking our current donors for funds.
Instead, we're taking a page from Kermit the Frog in his role as Kermit the Frog in "The Muppets Take Manhattan." We want you to help us with a sort of "whisper campaign."
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Just 6 days away! April's issue will be out Thursday, April 5.
Did you know The Word is free? No paywalls? We do that because we're supported by donors like you. Thank you to all of our donors.
Help keep us free at either the-word.news/support/ or www.equalaccesspublicmedia.org/support-us/.
Journalism organizations and news outlets:
Are you using AI-generated alt text, transcripts, and closed captions? Does that really fit with your AI policy? Read this thread!
Then contact us for training: info@equalaccesspublicmedia.org