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 is the bones of your html file and are already described by Assistive technologies so you don’t need to label them.
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.
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!