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From: Jeevan Reddy
Date: Dec 7, 2010 11:33PM

Hello Shan,
To my best of the knowledge, there is no Recognized standards for
HTML email accessibility. we should consider WCAG 2.0 as a standard how you
are doing for Web sites.
To Address your problem we can make HTML Email letters Accessible when the
content is uploaded by developers.
Make sure your CMS and Tool you are using is supporting for Accessibility.
On the other Hand we can use ARIA-labelledby and ARIA-describedby to make
forms and Graphics Accessible, but the same information is not perceivable
by all.
When coming to Tables, we can't totally avoid tabular layout, but using
simple table instead of nestead tables is better solution.
And Finally make sure that contrast is following W3C standard.
Thanks and Regards,
Jeevan.
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Shan He < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Currently we are using text-based email application, however some people
> in our entity want to use html-based email application. We are concerned
> about the accessibility issue if the html-based is adopted. Our web team
> can create pretty much accessible template for html-based, but the content
> which will be put into this template is out of our control, like
> images/graphics, table, form, etc. If the content is not accessible, so
> the email is not accessible. How can we ensure the content of the email
> is accessible?
>
> We can provide some training on how to create accessible html-based email,
> like add alt text to image, create semantic structure, accessible table
> and form, and so on. Keep accessibility in mind when addressing the email.
>
> What else we can do to ensure the html-based email is accessible? Any
> good resources for this issue? Any inputs are welcome.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Shan
>
>