Structural content is the bones of your html file and are already described by Assistive technologies so you don’t need to label them.
Structural Content in Email Accessibility
Question: How do you work with brands with already-established colors that don’t meet WCAG contrast requirements?
Color contrast issues are one of the most common accessibility failures I see – both in my accessibility audits and just as a person existing on this planet. It’s absolutely everywhere.
Dynamic Images, Alt Text, and Accessibility
Let’s talk about dynamic images – oh yea! Everyone loves them, no one wants to think about alt text. Le sigh.
Question: How should we handle character entities in the alt attribute?
Earlier in my career, I was taught to use weird text versions of business-related character entities in the alt attribute. I was told that alt attributes could only have “plain text” and that special characters did not work.
Question: How do you write alt text for animated gifs?
When I’m testing, I am usually testing on two main things: keyboard-based navigation and screen readers. Some screen readers change the functions on a keyboard or the tap interface of mobile devices and there’s a lot of variation in how all of these work.
Interactive Emails and Accessibility – Part 3
In part 3 we’re getting into the very granular details of how we can’t make interactive content accessible and why we’re so limited in email.
Interactive Emails and Accessibility – Part 2
This week we’re getting into the specific experiences that interactive elements create for assistive technology users and some of the ways we can get around them.
Interactive Emails and Accessibility – Part 1
I have dug into this topic and picked apart numerous examples of interactive content and it just can’t happen and I wanted to break this apart so that you can either do your own digging or review purported solutions for yourself.
Basics – Color in Email
Color contrast is at once one of the easiest accessibility criteria to meet and one of the most overlooked.
Basics – The Accessible Digital Ecosystem
We’re digging deep into the WCAG and how it works to guide us on our path to accessible digital content. The WCAG is quite a bit more complex than you might think and not as clear as you might hope, especially when we’re talking about our weird corner of development in email marketing.