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From: FOX, Jake
Date: Tue, Nov 04 2003 5:27AM
Subject: HTML emails!
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Hi guys,
are there any specific accessibility issues to bear in mind with HTML emails
or would you treat it just like a web page?
Thanks,
-Jake.
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From: Dey Alexander
Date: Tue, Nov 04 2003 5:39AM
Subject: Re: HTML emails!
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I'd treat it like a web page (structural markup, text equivalents for
non-text elements, etc.) except that some users may not have
HTML-friendly emailers.
And it depends on whether you're talking about mail outs, or interaction
on a mailing list. If the latter, then a whole bunch of rules of
etiquette come into the equation - none of which would be covered by
treatment similar to a web page.
Cheers,
Dey
FOX, Jake wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> are there any specific accessibility issues to bear in mind with HTML emails
> or would you treat it just like a web page?
>
> Thanks,
> -Jake.
>
>
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>
>
> Norwich Union Life & Pensions Limited
> Registered Office: 2 Rougier Street, York, YO90 1UU
> Registered in England Number 3253947
> A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group
> Members of which are Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Services Authority.
>
> For further enquiries 01603 622200
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From: FOX, Jake
Date: Tue, Nov 04 2003 5:43AM
Subject: Re: HTML emails!
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I'm talking about HTML emails advertising new products or services with are
largely graphical based?
any further ideas?
thanks
-Jake.
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From: FOX, Jake
Date: Tue, Nov 04 2003 5:45AM
Subject: Re: HTML emails!
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does anyone know if the usage of inline stylesheets within html should be
avoided? or are they ways around making this practice accessible?
-Jake.
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From: John Foliot - WATS.ca
Date: Tue, Nov 04 2003 7:21AM
Subject: RE: HTML emails!
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Hi Jake.
I manage a weekly HTML rich newsletter which employs inline style sheets.
The thing to remember with HTML rich emails is to always reference items
such as your images absolutely:
<.style type="text/css">
h1 {background-image :
url(http://www.yoursite.com/images/headlineblank.jpg);}
</style>
To address users with non-HTML email clients, I actually repeat the content
twice... the first time non-formatted (using HTML comment tags), the second
formatted:
<!--
THE NEWSLETTER
Blah, blah, blah; yada yada yada
-->
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;">
<meta http-equiv="Robots" name="Robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />
<style type="text/css">...</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>THE NEWSLETTER</h1>
<p>Blah, blah, blah; yada yada yada</p>
</body>
</html>
Hope this helps.
JF
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> Subject: Re: HTML emails!
>
>
> does anyone know if the usage of inline stylesheets within html should be
> avoided? or are they ways around making this practice accessible?
>
> -Jake.
>
>
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> Registered Office: 2 Rougier Street, York, YO90 1UU
> Registered in England Number 3253947
> A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group
> Members of which are Authorised and Regulated by the Financial
> Services Authority.
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> For further enquiries 01603 622200
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From: David R. Stong
Date: Tue, Nov 04 2003 8:15AM
Subject: In-line styles; WAS Re: HTML emails!
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Previously Jake wrote:
> does anyone know if the usage of inline stylesheets within html should be
>avoided? or are they ways around making this practice accessible?
Jake, in XHTML v.2 inline styles are deprecated in favor of class and
ID. Style can still be defined in a separate style sheet and in the
head of a document.
Read more at http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/04/16/dive-into.html
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State College, PA 16801-4819
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From: Stephanie Sullivan
Date: Tue, Nov 04 2003 8:48AM
Subject: Re: HTML emails!
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on 11/4/03 9:15 AM, John Foliot - WATS.ca at = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = profoundly
spewed forth their very articulate thoughts:
> I manage a weekly HTML rich newsletter which employs inline style sheets.
> The thing to remember with HTML rich emails is to always reference items
> such as your images absolutely:
> <.style type="text/css">
> h1 {background-image :
> url(http://www.yoursite.com/images/headlineblank.jpg);}
> </style>
>
> To address users with non-HTML email clients, I actually repeat the content
> twice... the first time non-formatted (using HTML comment tags), the second
> formatted:
John's right... Multipart and absolute references is the way to go...
Another thing I recently learned (and this is NOT the way I create HTML
pages) is to take the CSS styles (that I've placed in the head of the
document... You can't use linked CSS) into the top of the body element...
Makes my skin crawl to do it since it's not proper HTML technique
obviously... But it makes your HTML mail work for things like HotMail and
such where they chop the entire head section out. Just an FYI...
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