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From: Don Mauck
Date: Oct 10, 2014 7:44AM

This is all very true and while JAWS has been to do what they can to make it better, I never enjoy all those tables and graphics in my emails.

-----Original Message-----
From: James Nurthen [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 1:40 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] email campaigns

Yes - it is that cross-platform compatibility issue. If you want certain
formatting and you want your email to render the same (this tends to be
important for marketing people) across the myriad of email clients (mobile,
web (gmail, yahoo etc.) and traditional clients) then layout tables end up
being the ONLY way to do this.
What we really need is that any clients which do not support
role=presentation already to start supporting it - and those that actively
remove unknown markup from their emails to stop doing that for aria markup.
That way we can use layout tables and simply mark them up as presentational.

regards,
James

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Karl Groves < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> The CSS support in mail clients is still very poor, which is why you
> see so many layout tables being used in HTML email.
>
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Olaf Drümmer < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> > On 8 Oct 2014, at 16:29, John E Brandt < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >
> >> I'm guessing that mail protocol cannot use CSS so the layout is done
> with tables and the use of graphics for text.
> >
> > Absolutely not: many emails I receive have tons of CSS inside their
> HTML, and they work well in recent desktop email clients. I am not sure how
> well they work in web mail clients.
> >
> > Olaf
> >
> > > > > > >
>
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