Level Up Your Accessible Text Over Images Design Skills
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Regular readers know that web accessibility is a topic we’ve covered frequently, especially when it comes to color contrast. One of the real challenges is mastering the art of maintaining color contrast for text that sits above an image. The text will shift across different parts of the image across different device types and sometimes, it feels impossible to find a balance. Fortunately, SmashingMagazine.com recently published an article by Hannah Milan that takes a deep …
Common Points of Confusion Between the Accounting and Development Teams
As our organizations grow, the number of donations and the number of financial transactions grow along with it. On top of that, the accounting function, if it hasn’t already, likely will move from cash basis to the more complex accrual basis. This growth leads to the need for specialization among staff and often a separation of the gift processing and bookkeeping functions. It is very appropriate and desirable for internal control purposes to have separate …
When A Ballet Master Goes Viral
If you’re active on any social media platform, you’ve probably seen this TikTok of ballet master Tomas Karlborg from Staatsballett Berlin. This is not a new video — it is from World Ballet Day 2021 — but it was recently posted on TikTok. (If you’re a ballet nerd like me and would like to watch the entire class, you can do so here.) However, it is a great behind-the-scenes video of company class and a ballet master being …
ALERT: Google Domains Shutting Down And Selling To Squarespace
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On June 15, 2023 Google unexpectedly announced they sold Google Domains to Squarespace. Not only did this come as a shock to the online provider community, but it comes as especially bad news for nonprofits. Must-Have Details Any domain names you or your organization have registered at Google will be transferred to Squarespace. The timeline has not been defined but information from Google indicates it will be as soon as Q3 2023 to Q1 2024. …
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