Email Markup Consortium
emailmarkup.org
Email Markup Consortium
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Working to improve the accessibility, user experience, performance, consistency, and reliability of email markup
Link to the "Accessibility in Email Clients" section in our 2025 Accessibility report:
emailmarkup.org/en/reports/a...
Accessibility Report 2025 | Email Markup Consortium
Email Markup Consortium Accessibility Report - 2025
emailmarkup.org
October 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This kind of openness and collaboration benefits everyone in the email ecosystem. We’d love to see more email clients follow Proton Mail’s lead in sharing accurate, transparent data with the community.

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Proton Mail rise up the accessibility rankings | Email Markup Consortium
We’ve updated our 2025 Accessibility Report after Proton Mail updated its data on “Can I Email?”. It’s a reminder of how transparency and collaboration can push the email industry forward.
emailmarkup.org
October 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
No need to reinvent the wheel. Just a shared, interoperable way to explicitly set the preview text.
June 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Our latest blog post explores how preview text could be standardized using a metadata-based solution, which aligns with how Google's Gmail and Yahoo Mail already support Schema structured data in emails today.

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#Interoperability #standards #EmailClients
How email clients can improve preview text with one simple tag | Email Markup Consortium
Email clients can improve preview text by supporting a standard HTML meta tag; no hacks needed.
emailmarkup.org
June 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
If you’re working on Gmail, or any major email client: help us make this better.

Read our article "Email clients are stripping out accessibility at the expense of user needs" to learn more about this:
emailmarkup.org/en/blog/2025...
Email clients are stripping out accessibility at the expense of user needs | Email Markup Consortium
Many email clients, including Gmail, strip out code developers use to respect system-level accessibility preferences. Respecting user preferences is a clear accessibility requirement. Ignoring these i...
emailmarkup.org
June 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Respecting user preferences is non-negotiable for inclusive digital communication. It's time email clients enable developers to build more accessible HTML emails.
June 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
We're calling on Gmail and other major email teams to take accessibility seriously:
Let developers build inclusive experiences. Respect user preferences.

Read more about this in our 2025 email accessibility report:
emailmarkup.org/en/reports/a...
Accessibility Report 2025 | Email Markup Consortium
Email Markup Consortium Accessibility Report - 2025
emailmarkup.org
May 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This isn't just a missed feature; it's a barrier. It may even have legal implications.

Email clients are disregarding OS-level accessibility settings, and forcing users to endure experiences that may be uncomfortable and harmful. Impacting the sender's the ability to communicate with their audience
May 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
These preferences exist for a reason: to make digital content safer, more readable, or usable for a large percentage of people in this world.

Yet as shown in our 2025 Accessibility Report, Gmail and other clients completely strip out the code developers use to detect and adapt to these preferences.
May 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Read more about this in our 2025 email accessibility report:
emailmarkup.org/en/reports/a...
Accessibility Report 2025 | Email Markup Consortium
Email Markup Consortium Accessibility Report - 2025
emailmarkup.org
May 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
We urge public sector teams to audit their email templates, adopt accessibility best practices, and build emails with inclusion in mind. When accessibility is overlooked, critical public information becomes inaccessible to the people who may need it most.
May 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
It is not that the challenges are purely different, but rather how widely different your choices to address them are, and how an email developer sometimes has to carry the responsibility to address something user agents (email clients) failed their users by not addressing.
December 12, 2024 at 9:43 AM