Accessible Email
A list of great articles, tools, presentations and resources about accessibility in general and specifically for email
Articles
- Email Accessibility: A Complete Guide for Marketers, Designers, and Developers
- Accessibility in Email Marketing
- Accessibility in Email Marketing
- How to design accessible email newsletters
- 4 aspecten waarmee je jouw e-mailnieuwsbrieven toegankelijker maakt [Dutch]
- 6 oplossingen om je nieuwsbrief nóg toegankelijker te maken [Dutch]
- Inclusive design maakt e-mail toegankelijk voor iedereen [Dutch]
- Community Contest: Creating an Accessible Email
- We’re Just Temporarily Abled
- Stop Designing For Only 85% Of Users: Nailing Accessibility In Design
- Accessibility according to actual people with disabilities
- Alt-texts: The Ultimate Guide
- Trends That Exclude
- I thought title text improved accessibility. I was wrong.
- HTML Email and Accessibility
- Small Tweaks That Can Make a Huge Impact on Your Website’s Accessibility
- Email accessibility in action
- Title Texts Suck
- Text Splitting Causes Screen Reader Problems
- Hand tremors and the giant-button-problem
- Designing For Accessibility And Inclusion
- Inclusive Design: 12 Ways to Design for Everyone
- Why does email accessibility matter?
- How to test accessibility of emails
- Designing for accessibility is not that hard
- Accessibility and Inclusion with the World’s Most Popular Communication Tool: Email
- Why digital accessibility matters
- Accessibility in Email Marketing: 7 Simple Tricks to Make Your Code More Accessible
- Why Ignoring Email Accessibility is Hurting Your Business
- Rodriguez: The Difference Between Accessibility and Inclusion in Email Marketing
- Email Accessibility: Looks aren’t everything.
- Accessibility vs. Inclusion: What it Takes to Create More Inclusive Email Marketing Experiences
- Accessibility in Digital Marketing
- The Myths of Color Contrast Accessibility
- Email Design Accessibility: Why It Is Important to Improve It
- Make email accessibility your New Year’s resolution
- Accessibility in Email: Making it real
- The effect of CSS on screen readers
- Writing great alt text: Emotion matters
- Writing alternative text that matters
- Some questions on accessibility in email — answered
- How to Code Accessible Emails with Semantic HTML and ARIA
- Alternative Text
- Using rem and em units in email
- Should you use an h1 in email code?
- ARIA landmarks in email
- Text In Images
- How to Conform to WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) in Email
- No Accessibility Without Disabilities
- Everything I know about alt text
- First rule of ARIA – do not use ARIA – and why it is so important
- The business case for accessibility
- The Litmus Team’s Favorite Emails of April 2023
- Why font-size must NEVER be in pixels
- Notes from the Dev: Email Accessibility Insights for Developers
- European Accessibility Act: What you need to know
- Friendly Reminder: Write Good Alt Text
- The Surprising Truth About Pixels and Accessibility
- Aria-label or Alt?
- What makes up an accessible email CTA?
- Write Alt Text Like You’re Talking To A Friend
- Making accessibility a habit
- The article element
- Why image-based emails are bad
- Landmarks in email
- WCAG Colour Contrast: What does the 4.5:1 ratio actually mean? NEW
Presentations
- A Type of Accessibility
- Accessibility in email - #EoAInsights
- 5 Pro Tips for Making Your Email More Accessible
- Exclusive Design – Vasilis van Gemert – btconfBER2017 [VIDEO]
- Accessibility in HTML email — Mark Robbins: #ID24 Nov 2017 [VIDEO]
- Accessibility in HTML email — Mark Robbins: #ID24 Nov 2017 [SLIDES]
- Inclusive Design 24 (#ID24) - A Free 24-Hour Online Community Event On Accessibility organized by The Paciello Group
- Email Accessibility Resources [Google Doc]
- Email Accessibility Tips from the Pros [VIDEO]
- Accessibility in AMP [VIDEO]
- Email Accessibility: Fulfill Your Legal Responsibilities and Expand Your Reach [VIDEO]
- How to Make Ancient HTML Accessible
- Accessibility Implementation: Removing the Resistance with Behavioural Science
Tools
- accessible-email.org
- WebAIM - Contrast Checker
- VoiceOver Cheatsheet
- Text alternatives - a decision tree
- An ongoing project to try and curate beautiful color palettes that are a11y friendly
- Funkify - Plugin for Chrome that helps you experience the web and interfaces through the eyes of extreme users with different abilities and disabilities
- Contrast — Color Accessibility
- colororacle.org
- accessible-colors.com
- Accessible Brand Colors - A tool that evaluates the ADA compliance of your brand’s color palette
- Email on Acid Accessibility Check
- Litmus Accessibility Check
- Leonardo: an open source contrast-based color generator
- axe Accessibility Linter for VS Code
- A Complete Guide To Accessibility Tooling
- Check Your WCAG Compliance
- Accessibility tools for everyone
- Parcel - The Email Coding Platform
- Accessibility testers you can trust
- Email Reader View
- WCAG Plugin (Figma)
- Find out how many people might have a disability or impairment, who could use your service NEW
Resources
- microsoft.com/design
- smashingmagazine.com/category/accessibility
- Dos and don'ts on designing for accessibility
- The Accessibility Cheatsheet
- a11yweekly.com
- axesslab.com
- How to Craft the Perfect Accessible Email
- 24 days of digital accessibility gifts during the season of giving and sharing
- Email development: Email accessibilty in 2017
- a11ysupport.io
- A Designers Accessibility Checklist
- Email Design Review - Accessibility Posts
- Screen Reader User Survey #9 Results
- ARIA in HTML
- Episode 1 - Introduction to email accessibility
- Episode 2 - Creating accessible email content
- Episode 3 - Coding accessible email campaigns
- Episode 4 - Email accessibility testing and tools
- Learning web accessibility made easy
- The Book on Accessibility
- WCAG, but in language I can understand
- a11y.email/resources-links
- Accessibility Myths
- WCAG in Plain English NEW
Guides
- Accessibility and Email Campaigns
- Email Accessibility: Your Ultimate Guide
- A Beginner’s Guide to Email Accessibility (Checklist + Resources)
- Accessibility for teams
- An interactive guide to color & contrast
- Writing for email: A Copywriter's Accessibility Guide
- Guide to testing emails with a screen reader
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2
- A Roundup Of WCAG 2.2 Explainers
- Fix Color Contrast – Web Accessibility for Text & UI Design
- How To Make A Strong Case For Accessibility
- Principles Of Web Accessibility NEW
Books
Webinars/Podcasts
- Accessibility in email
- 5 tips for making more accessible emails
- Email accessibility with Net Atlantic
- Delivering Episode 7: Why is digital accessibility so important
- Email accessibility: How to make email for everyone in 3 easy steps
- Panel: The Import of Accessibility in Email Design - Paul Airy, Megan Boshuyzen, Ornella Gallo
- #88. Email Accessability with Megan Boshuyzen
- How to Make Your Emails More Accessible
- Notes from the Dev: Email Accessibility Insights for Developers
- Exploring email accessibility with Sarah Gallardo
- Rian Rietveld on Understanding the European Accessibility Act and Its Impact on Websites
- From compliance to connection: Why businesses must embrace email accessibility NEW