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From: Tom Livingston
Date: Feb 1, 2022 11:27AM

On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 11:41 PM Murphy, Sean
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Team,
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> I am seeking for a good resource on e-mail HTML accessibility. Type of information I am seeking is:
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> * What in CSs is not supported?
> * Is there any other way of laying out information without using tables?
> * What limitation is there related to E-Mail HTML for the main clients like Outlook, windows Mail, Apple Mail on Mac and iPhone, Android default email client. Anything out side of this scope I am not interested in. As we have to scope our testing boundary on these clients.
> * How to validate accessibility for E-Mails - such as tools to auto test.
>
> We are using the WCAG 2.1 standards. Some of these SC's don't apply. Any information on this is more than welcome as we want to ensure our e-mails are accessible as possible.
>
>
>

Sean,

This is a good resource for CSS support: https://www.caniemail.com/

As for tables, Yes, there are other structural elements that could be
used, but for email client support reasons I still use tables and will
for the foreseeable future. At my office, we use stripo.email for
building emails. Saves me from having to research every little issue
that pops up in this email client and that email client.

I have not run across accessibility tools for email clients. Testing
them in a browser only has so much value.

HTH



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