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Government communications are often required by law to be accessible.

Yet 100% of the emails we tested failed basic automated accessibility tests.
#A11y

Following on from the @emailmarkup.org Accessibility Report yesterday.

If you support the work we're doing to make email markup more accessible, more consistent and all round better. Please add your name to the list.

emailmarkup.org/en/supporters/

#EmailGeeks

We've just put our the latest Email Accessibility Report.

There has been some improvement from previous years, but the results are still pretty dire.

So today on #GAAD please take a moment to look at fixing at least one thing in your emails.

We're looking for an Associate Accessibility Specialist to join the @TetraLogical.com team:
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

Also here if Linkedin is not your thing:
misc.tetralogical.com/careers/2025...

Closing date is Wednesday 21 May.

#accessibility #a11y #UK

Fun email bug of the day #EmailGeeks.

Superhuman will flatten all font sizes, if a #CSS border property doesn't appear inside an email.

This is the best bug I've seen in a while.

github.com/hteumeuleu/e...

It's British Sign Language (BSL) Awareness day! BSL is a visual language used by over 150,000 people in the UK.

Explore our range of accessibility videos, all with BSL.

Quick Accessibility Tests: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2PS...

Browsing with Assistive Technology: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcNW...

🏳️‍⚧️ NEW 🏳️‍⚧️

We believe the Supreme Court – which disgracefully refused to hear from trans people before its decision last week – has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act.

So we’re readying a challenge – join us:
goodlaw.social/xpme

UK folks - the @goodlawproject.bsky.social is fundraising to challenge the Supreme Court's recent judgement goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

Fun look at the evolution of email over the year. Oh and look, I'm quoted in it a few times, so it must be good #EmailGeeks

stripo.email/blog/email-m...

FWIW: chng.it/MxpXD4MDxX

I know this has been shared a lot already but if you've not seen it yet, it's well worth watching
www.ted.com/talks/carole...

Playing around with #CSS Overflow Module Level 5. I built out a CSS only hotspot email. This works in (some) email clients such as @notion.com Mail. When viewed in Chrome 135.

It's early days but I'm loving these new CSS features, so much potential 😃
parcel.io/e/461478b7-f... #EmailGeeks

Oh hello #EmailGeeks this looks good

Get involved with @emailmarkup.org discussions. Help us with working towards improving the state of email markup #EmailGeeks

It's December 1st, and you know what that means: For the next 24 days, we'll publish articles about HTML by 24 authors. You can read them on the website or subscribe to the RSS channel.

Enjoy!

htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

Browsers are so unified these day, I forget there are sometimes differences. Todays learning strong tags in Firefox are set to `font-weight:bolder` others use `bold` #strongtyles.com/#strong" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">browserdefaultstyles.com/#strong

Email is still the wild west of rendering. Keeping things exciting. Living life on the edge.

Please don’t rely on automated tools to write alt text!

Sure, AI is getting better at being able to recognise what’s in an image, but its context that matters!

See my example, where the same image, in two places, needs different alt text: www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/how-to-...

#accessibility #a11y

Morning #Brighton folks, the weather is shit today so get yourself down to Silver Spur makers market in Knoyle Hall, BN1 6RB (free parking). Be sure to check out Flamingo Rodeo (my partner's stall).

Found a fun #accessibility bug today.

An element containing only an   inside a region, inside a document, inside an application. Will take you out of the region when using VoiceOver in Safari.

#EmailGeeks this is happening in Outlook webmail, so watch out for it github.com/hteumeuleu/e...

Hiya folks,
Does anyone know of a setting in Safari dev tools that can stop it squashing content to 1 character per line?

Obviously less elements is one solution but this is an email in outlook webmail and none of it is my code.

The Email Markup Consortium is working to improve UX, accessibility, performance, consistency and reliability in email markup. Please consider to chip in and support better emails! 🌟 emailmarkup.org/en/sponsors/ #EmailInnovation #EmailGeeks

Forgot to post this here the other day.

I did a little write up about the new Thunderbird Android app. Good support for modern CSS and some cool dark mode stuff going on. Overall seems solid.

Go and have a read
#EmailGeeks

learn.customer.io/message-comp...

If you haven't already, we've now made it easier to sign up and show your support for the Email Markup Consortium and our mission to improve email standards.

emailmarkup.org/en/supporters/

Read more about our mission here emailmarkup.org/en/docs/miss...

#EmailGeeks