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Re: Question about Email Accessibility

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From: Dawn Budge
Date: Dec 9, 2010 6:48AM

Hi,
Do you know you can (and should) provide multipart email if you are doing
HTML email so that you specify a plain text section too? This isn't just
an accessibility issue, it is a platform issue too.
See:http://www.rnib.org.uk/professionals/webaccessibility/articles/Pages/htm
l_emails.aspxand you may also be interested
inhttp://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
To cut a long story short, you have to use layout tables if you want to do
columns because outlook 07/10 doesn't support any type of positioning CSS,
so ensure that the content is in a logical order by using nesting and don't
use the semantic attributes, it will just confuse things.
Dawn

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From: "Shan He" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: 06 December 2010 22:30
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Subject: [WebAIM] Question about Email Accessibility

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