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From: glen walker
Date: Jun 1, 2022 9:39AM

As a last resort, you can use the "conforming alternate version" clause,
https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#dfn-conforming-alternate-version, in the
definition of AA conformance: "For Level AA conformance, the Web page
satisfies all the Level A and Level AA Success Criteria, or a Level AA
conforming alternate version is provided."

So even if your email is not fully conformant, if your "view in browser"
version is conformant, you can be considered conformant. Ideally, you want
the email itself to be conformant.

This is also assuming the "view in browser" link is accessible. That is,
if "view in browser" were embedded in a sentence such as, "To read the
entire email, view in browser", and the link were not distinguished from
the rest of the sentence, then you'd have an accessibility issue with the
link and you would not pass the "conforming alternate version".

On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 7:57 AM Alan Zaitchik < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Would appreciate feedback: I'm working on an email with HTML content. At
> the top there's a “view in browser” link which opens an HTML page in the
> user's browser. That page will soon be made accessible. But the original
> email file is not accessible in Outlook— nested presentation tables, lack
> of headings and list structures, and more. Screen readers give an inferior
> expeeience, to say the least.
> Does the convenience and immediacy of the “view in browser” link count as
> affording an equivalent experience? Will AT users opt to use the link as a
> matter of course when they hear it or encounter bumps in the road in
> Outlook? It may be impossible to rework the email itself for the Outlook
> mail client.
> Thanks,
> A
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