This week I’m digging deep into the details of what we need to do with our data tables to ensure they work for assistive tech users – we’re starting with testing and then we’ll talk layout/design differences.
Data tables in email – Part 2
Data tables in email – Part 1
Welcome to my two part series on data tables in emails – aka – when not to use role=”presentation”! This week, we’re talking intro to the main structural elements needed in data tables, where data tables show up in emails, and some basic functional issues we run across in our email marketing efforts.
Functional Accessibility vs Technical Accessibility
It can be really confusing when you hear different solutions from different sources in our industry. We always want it to be super simple, but at the end of the day there’s a lot of nuance to email specifically, and then there’s also a lot of nuance within accessibility, and that can be hard to sort out.
Structural Content in Email Accessibility
Structural content is the bones of your html file and are already described by Assistive technologies so you don’t need to label them.
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.
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.
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!
Why image-based emails are bad
TLDR; Just don’t.