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Question: How do you work with brands with already-established colors that don’t meet WCAG contrast requirements?
Posted bySarahjoga
Question: How do you work with brands with already-established colors that don’t meet WCAG contrast requirements?
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Dynamic Images, Alt Text, and Accessibility
Posted bySarahjoga
Dynamic Images, Alt Text, and Accessibility
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Interactive Emails and Accessibility – Part 3
Posted bySarahjoga
Interactive Emails and Accessibility – Part 3
Alert
Interactive Emails and Accessibility – Part 2
Posted bySarahjoga
Interactive Emails and Accessibility – Part 2

Question: How do you work with brands with already-established colors that don’t meet WCAG contrast requirements?

  • Posted inBasicQuestion
  • Posted bySarahjoga
  • May 7, 2025May 7, 2025
Typographic Q & A

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.

Dynamic Images, Alt Text, and Accessibility

  • Posted inComponent
  • Posted bySarahjoga
  • May 1, 2025May 1, 2025
A screenshot of Sarah's inbox where the alt text of dozens of images read: Display images to show real-time content. Lame!

Let’s talk about dynamic images – oh yea! Everyone loves them, no one wants to think about alt text. Le sigh.

Interactive Emails and Accessibility – Part 3

  • Posted inAlert
  • Posted bySarahjoga
  • March 5, 2025March 5, 2025
Screenshot of a simplistic carousel design with left/right arrows.

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

  • Posted inAlert
  • Posted bySarahjoga
  • February 26, 2025February 26, 2025
Screenshot of a simplistic carousel design with left/right arrows.

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

  • Posted inAlert
  • Posted bySarahjoga
  • February 20, 2025February 20, 2025
Screenshot of a simplistic carousel design with left/right arrows.

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 

  • Posted inBasic
  • Posted bySarahjoga
  • December 18, 2024December 18, 2024
Screenshot of different email client tests of different colors in different dark mode color changes.

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

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