Color contrast is at once one of the easiest accessibility criteria to meet and one of the most overlooked.
Basics – Color in Email

Color contrast is at once one of the easiest accessibility criteria to meet and one of the most overlooked.
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.
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.
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!
TLDR; Just don’t.
The CPACC gives you all of the information and perspective you need to be able to have really solid conversations with different folks about disability concepts.
At the tail end of 2023, I achieved a task I’ve spent the last 6ish months slowly working towards – I passed my Trusted Tester final exam!
An Ode to Percy Jackson “Mommy! Guess what? Percy Jackson has ADHD, too!” …and so began an epic family fandom of all things Rick Riordan I read the first set of books with my then eight-year-old (she was a voracious reader and still is) and read them again in audiobook format when my younger daughter…
Today, in Part 4, I’m taking a bit of a step back and asking a broader question about why we feel the need to link everything. That’s right, I’m talking about an accessible linking strategy.
We’ve already talked about the functional side of links and how different users activate them. Today, we’re taking that info and expanding on it.