Equal Access Public Media (EAPM)

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A public media organization dedicated to making news and journalism industry more accessible. A project with ANF, a 501(c)(3) supporting independent watchdog journalism. https://www.equalaccesspublicmedia.org

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Equal Access Public Media One mission: Increase accessibility in the journalism industry and in public-facing news products. Projects that put accessibility into action: • the EAPM Style and Accessibility Guide • training for journalists and media outlets and news organizations • The word magazine www.equalaccesspublicmedia.org
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 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.
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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
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The EAPM donation box showing the honor option checked an a sample email, mom@email.com, with the honoree as Best mom ever. Text to the right reads: Honor an #a11y with the gift of accessible journalism 1. Select your donation frequency, 2. Select your donation amount. 3. Click "Give in honor/memorial of." 4. Add your honoree's email address to notify them. 5. Add your honoree's name. 6. Click continue.
Text reading "Love it? Fund it." above a red heart outlining the Equal Access Public Media logo. Small versions of the EAPM Style and Accessibility Guide logo and The Word logo flank the heart on the left and right.
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Text over an image of four fists held together. 12 Days of Giving Tuesday December 2, 2025 Reason number 1 to give to Equal Access Public Media You believe in accessible news and accessibility in the journalism industry.
Text reads: Equal Access Public Media 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 - EAPM Style and Accessibility Guide - training for journalists, media outlets and news organizations - The Word magazine Donate on #GivingTuesday
Text: 12 Days of Giving Tuesday December 2, 2025 Reason 2 to donate to Equal Access Public Media: We’re building new ways of bring people news, each and every day. Graphic shows a sculpted-like figure sitting on the word "news"
Text over a photo of a laptop and tools: 12 Days of Giving Tuesday December 3, 2025 Reason 3 to donate to Equal Access Public Media: We build tools for journalists that combine journalism and accessibility, like the EAPM Style and Accessibility Guide.
Text: 12 Days of Giving Tuesday December 2, 2025 Reason 4 to donate to Equal Access Public Media Each gift continues the fight for nonprofit, accessible media for all people. Graphic of people marching.
Text: 12 days of Giving Tuesday, December 2, 2025. Reason 5 to donate to Equal Access Public Media. A photo shows two hands fitting puzzle pieces together. Text: We’re putting the pieces of inclusive, accessible media into everyday news.
Text: 12 Days of Giving Tuesday December 2, 2025 Reason 6 to donate to Equal Access Public Media: We’re built for you and by you. And we’ll never be owned by Big Tech or Legacy Media. At the bottom, the words Big Tech and Legacy Media are both crossed out by the "No" symbol in red.
Text over a photo of empty modern chairs. Two chairs are black. One chair is red. Text: 12 Days of Giving Tuesday December 2, 2025 Reason 7 to donate to Equal Access Public Media. Funding will help us hire from a diverse pool of great journalists, including those with disabilities.
Text over a photo of a hand receiving keys: 12 Days of Giving Tuesday December 2, 2025 Reason 8 to donate to Equal Access Public Media: Your donation is the key to more accessible news.
Text: 12 Days of Giving Tuesday December 2, 2025 Reason 9 to donate to Equal Access Public Media. It's easy. And there's s many ways to do it. Graphic of a laptop and a cellphone showing the EAPM website Support page.
12 Days of Giving Tuesday December 2, 2025 Reason 10 to donate to Equal Access Public Media: Accessible news benefits everyone.
12 Days of Giving Tuesday Dec. 2, 2025 Reason 11 to donate to Equal Access Public Media: To create more accessible news outlets for you.
12 Days of Giving Tuesday Dec. 2, 2025 Reason 12 to give to Equal Access Public Media: Teach more journalists about accessibility
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Graphic on the left show hands stretching a $100 bill. Text: Stretch your donation. Donate through your Benevity or YourCause employee giving program and let your employee match your donation. Here's how it works: 1. Access your Benevity or YourCause corporate giving program. 2. Choose Alternative Newsweekly Foundation. 3. Note that you want your donation directed to Equal Access Public Media. Visit us online at equalaccesspublicmedia.org. Logos from EAPM, Alternative Newsweekly Foundation, YourCause by Blackbaud, and Benevity
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A notepad with a list of reasons: Support the only national org that promotes accessibility in news. Help pay great journalists. Help EAPM create and expand projects like the Style and Accessibility Guide, The Word, and the National Tab. Stand up to fascism. Help EAPM hit $1,500 goal!
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Back to school with EAPM: Fall fund drive 2025
Back to school with EAPM: Fall fund drive 2025
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Graphic with four quadrants around a central logo labeled "EAPM." Top left: "Accessibility first." Top right: "Make news more accessible." Bottom left: "Build a better industry." Bottom right: "Create more accessible jobs." In each image, a specific block is highlighted in red to call out the text. Top left block: Accessibility first. Be an advocate in the journalism industry for people with disabilities, chronic illnesses, veterans who served, and caregivers.
For news audiences Our initiatives, like the Style and Accessibility Guide and training sessions, aim to enhance news accessibility for the audience. We focus on individuals with disabilities who use alternative methods to access the web, as well as those with low literacy levels. For journalists Creating accessible news outlets, like the National Tab, fosters jobs for journalists with disabilities, chronic illnesses, veterans, and caregivers — individuals who frequently face underemployment.
Black text inside a word bubble. "Accessibility is not an afterthought. It's foundational. We must demand and create news experiences that welcome every reader, listener, and viewer." — Britne Jenke Accessibility leader EAPM board of directors
About 2 in 11 people in the U.S. experience a traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year. TBI is the leading cause of disability and death around the world. Although mild TBIs, known as concussions, usually resolve in a matter of weeks, moderate and severe TBIs can have long-lasting symptoms. Repeat concussions can also result in long-lasting symptoms. (source: Brain Injury Association of America; Prevalence of Traumatic Brain Injury in the General Adult Population of the USA: A Meta-Analysis)
Black text on a white background. About 1 in 31 children age 8 in the U.S. are diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. This is likely due to more diagnostic resources in more communities. At all ages, the diagnosis is most often made by a primary care provider or a behavioral health provider. Girls and women are more likely to remain under- and misdiagnosed. (source: Autism Self Advocacy Network, Embrace Autism, CDC, The National Autism Data Center)
Black text on a white background. More than 1 in 10 American adults are diagnosed with diabetes. About 1 in 20 American adults meet the criteria for diabetes but remain undiagnosed. Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness and low vision in people 19 to 64 years old. About 80 percent of lower limb amputations in the U.S. are due to complications form diabetes. (source: CDC)
Black text on a white background. Up to 1 in 6 American adults may have some changes in hearing. About 1 in 3 American adults over 70 use or have used a hearing aid. About 1 in 6 adults 18 to 69 use or have used a hearing aid. (source: National Deaf Center, Nation Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders)
Black text on a white background. Anxiety disorders are the most commonly diagnosed mental health disorder. About 1 in 3 adults and teens in the U.S. will experience an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives. Women are twice as likely than men to experience anxiety disorders. (source: WHO, Cleveland Clinic)
Black text on a white background. Between 1 in 10 and 1 in 12 men and about 1 in 200 women have a form of color vision deficiency, also called color blindness. The most common color vision deficiency affects the way people see greens and reds. Most people are born with color vision deficiency. It can also happen after disease or trauma to the eye, or as a side effect from some medications. (source: American Academy of Ophthalmology, National Eye Institute)
Black text on a white background. More than 70 million people around the world live with some form of dysautonomia. About 1 in 50 teens and adults lives with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS). About 2 in 3 people with Long CoVid in the United Sates will develop dysautonomia. (source: Dysautonomia International)
Black text on a white background. About 1 in 30 American adults are deaf or hard of hearing. For up to 1 million Americans, American Sign language is their primary language. (source: National Deaf Center)
Black text on white background. Up to 1 in 4 adults will develop Long CoVid after a CoVid-19 infection. Adolescents aged 12 to 17, adults over the age of 65, women, and those hospitalized due to their CoVid-19 symptoms were most likely to develop Long CoVid. (source: RECOVER)
Black text on a white background. More than 1 in 100 people have a form of limb difference or amputation in the U.S. About 2.3 million are individuals living with limb loss, and 3.4 million have congenital limb differences. About 80 percent of lower limb amputations in the U.S. are due to complications from diabetes. (source: CDC)
Black text on a white background. About 1 in 2 American adults have a chronic illness. (source: CDC)
Black text on a white background. More than 1 in 4 American adults identify as disabled. (source: CDC)
Six panel comic. Panel 1: A hand pointing to an email with a graph showing most people get news from social media. Text below: EAPM knew we had to rethink journalism. The data said so. It wasn't just our dedication to accessibility. That data said we needed a new way. Panel 2: A person holding a phone says, I follow both video news sources: YouTube and TikTok. Panel 3: A person holding a phone says, I'm really into science and health news. That's why I'm on Instagram. Text below reads: More than half of adults are getting their news from social media — at least once in a while — and YouTube is the most popular. But don't discount other places like X, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, TikTok, and others. People are turning to social media for news more and more rather than news sources. That's a recipe for misinformation. Panel 4: Many "Hello my name is" badges with titles such as reporter, editor, ASL interpreter, copy editor, social team, etc. Text below reads: We thought, what if a news site reported each news story in in multiple ways? Sure, it would take a big group — reporters, videographers, editors, ASL interpreters, someone to do the audio of the story, someone to make a video podcast version. But in the end, more people could get the same quality news. Panel 5: A news story from the National Tab. Headline is Today's big news story. Tabs show different ways to get the news story such as text and audio, video, and Easy English. Text below reads: And we'll put it all right there on the website, in one package. But even better, since more than half of people are getting their news on social media, we also meet people where they're at... Panel six: The headline from the National Tab is going out by arrow to people's phones on social media. Text below reads: The same video on the site will post to video social media. The same audio will post to audio sites. And so on. Sure links can still go out, but there's more ways to meet social media users than ever before.
"Until accessibility is a fundamental component of product development, it is an endeavor that requires staff, training, and accountability to retrofit y’all’s accessibility-less products and processes." E. Simone Jenerson EAPM, publisher
"When it comes to news audiences, I argue that disabled people need access to all types of news, whether it's news about what's going on with the national government, their local town council, their favorite sports team, their favorite musician, or about disability issues." Stacy Kess EAPM, founder and editor-in-chief
"That National Tab will be our flagship publication under the EAPM umbrella, and its goal is to publish accessible news to not only provide information to the public — all of the public — at this critical time for American democracy , but to also be the standard bearer against which other publications can be held." Eliza Cussen EAPM, organizational advancement consultant