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From: Shan He
Date: Mon, Dec 06 2010 3:30PM
Subject: Question about Email Accessibility
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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
From: Jeevan Reddy
Date: Tue, Dec 07 2010 11:33PM
Subject: Re: Question about Email Accessibility
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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 ADDRESS 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
>
>
From: Dawn Budge
Date: Thu, Dec 09 2010 6:48AM
Subject: Re: Question about Email Accessibility
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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 ADDRESS REMOVED = >
Sent: 06 December 2010 22:30
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < = EMAIL ADDRESS 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
From: ckrugman
Date: Tue, Dec 14 2010 1:03AM
Subject: Re: Question about Email Accessibility
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HTML email format is accessible for screen reader software as long as the
email contains content that is text based. Difficulties arise when images
contain scanned text or graphics without text equivalents when being read by
screen readers.
Chuck
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From: "Shan He" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
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Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 2:29 PM
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
>
>