Let’s talk about dynamic images – oh yea! Everyone loves them, no one wants to think about alt text. Le sigh.
Dynamic Images, Alt Text, and Accessibility
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.
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.
Links Deep Dive Part 4
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.