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A computer icon showing a wrench and screwdriver on the screen is surrounded by icons representing accessibility and EDI: an ear, an eye, a lightbulb with a brain inside, and two hands forming a heart as they shake.
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Alex Benarzi

Editing with Vision Loss: Accessibility Tips

September 19, 2024 by Alex Benarzi | 2 Comments on Editing with Vision Loss: Accessibility Tips

Editors with vision loss? It is not possible. After all, editing is a visual practice, isn’t it? How can you catch every typo and every errant comma in a manuscript when you struggle to see? Yes, I have heard these and similar comments. I am here this week to show you how I, a professional […]

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Tali Ijack

Editing for Accessibility: Basic Best Practices

August 10, 2023 by Tali Ijack | 2 Comments on Editing for Accessibility: Basic Best Practices

Accessibility is the lack of obstacles to obtaining, attaining or retaining something. The Accessible Canada Act, established in 2019, aims to identify, remove and prevent barriers that cause the exclusion of all persons, especially disabled persons, from various necessary aspects of life. Information and communication technologies have been identified as areas that need to meet […]

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Michelle Noble

How to Build an Editing Website

August 3, 2023 by Michelle Noble | 5 Comments on How to Build an Editing Website

Editors who are starting in the field these days are generally expected to have a web presence, but what should that entail? Is an editing website necessary? And what is the best approach to creating one?  The Editors Canada student relations committee recently hosted a discussion series in the student affiliate Facebook group to gather […]

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