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 2
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.
International Day of Persons with Disabilities – Special Post
Hi, I’m Gemma and I’m a psychology major, an editor of this blog (sometimes), and a disabled person as well as a disability advocate.
Question: How do I test my emails?
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.
Question: How do screen reader users navigate through email clients?
I think one of the hardest mental leaps to make in accessibility is wrapping your head around how different people interact with digital products we all use every day.
Re: Image Based Emails – Your brand font is dead
Stop using images of text – use live text instead – people use browser extensions to adjust the text on their page and that can’t work with images of text!
Landmarks in Email
Email clients do support landmarks and they should definitely be used (sparingly) to let users navigate emails more easily.
Why image-based emails are bad
TLDR; Just don’t.