🔗 All About Email, Issue 207 is out now! This week - CTA buttons vs links and email link strategy! Learn about accessible, meaningful links and how to use fewer, more intentional links to improve usability. Feel free to read the full newsletter below. 👇

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` browserdefaultstyles.com/#strong#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

Last week we published the anual EMC Email Accessibility Report for #GAAD. We tested about 400,000 emails and 99.97% failed. Only 2 senders out of 2,362 unique domains passed without issue. #EmailGeeks go test your emails, most of these issues are very quick fixes. emailmarkup.org/en/reports/a...

Hi all, We're hiring an Engineering Manager on our team. Cool company to work for and VERY cool team to work with. The job here says remote United States but I'm pretty sure it's open beyond that Do you fancy telling me what to do? Apply now! boards.greenhouse.io/customerio/j...

Hiya #EmailGeeks I was on Notes From the Dev with @megcodesemail.bsky.social Go and check it out, I talk about how to create some very cool nostalgic WordArt in email. If you don't think WordArt is groovy, hip and fly then why are you following me? www.emailonacid.com/blog/article...

Great look into email accessibility (or rather lack of accessibility) axesslab.com/inaccessible... from mastodon.social/@ErikGustafs... also video available at www.deque.com/axe-con/sess... Coding email can be very complex, but these examples are failing on the basics. #EmailGeeks #A11y

Hey new folks! Please go into your settings and turn this on to remind you to be a good citizen to your visually impaired friends and colleagues.

The question I get asked most often. “Mark can you please team up with Bagpuss to explain, how to use border-radius in HTML email with up to 8 values?” Well here's what you've all been asking for www.youtube.com/watch?v=felh...  #EmailGeeks #Bagpuss

Join me tomorrow and Thursday at Parcel Unpacked to look at some Tea Break Tips on email code. There is a whole host of other Amazing speakers talking all things email. Register for free now (if you haven't already) parcel.io/unpacked #EmailGeeks #EmailDev

Very excited for #ParcelUnpacked Loads of great #EmailGeeks talking all things email, oh yeah and it's free. Sign up here parcel.io/unpacked I'm also pretty happy with this game I built in the launch email, it's basically the Chrome Dino game but with a different design and built to work in email

Our new email course is live for anyone wanting to learn how to code HTML email. You can learn from scratch, or maybe pick up a few new ideas or just use it as a refresher on what you already know. #EmailGeeks Read the blog post parcel.io/blog/learn-e... or start learning parcel.io/lessons

I've just proposed a new element to the HTML spec and would be very interested in peoples opinions to see if I'm making any sense #HTML #accessibility github.com/whatwg/html/...

The inaugural #StateOfHTML 2023 Survey has launched! Read my blog post for background: lea.verou.me/blog/2023/st... Or take the survey directly: survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

Nearly finished packing for my trip to Boston and #LitmusLive2023, got the essentials sorted. #BritsAbroad

This is a really great discussion on sustainability, such an interesting topic and a lot to learn. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFog...

Myself and @emailfromnaomi.bsky.social sat down with Drew Price to chat and geek out about cool stuff in Parcel. Also had a look at that amazing MySpace email from @megcodesemail.bsky.social #EmailGeeks scalingcrm.substack.com/p/everyone-l...

Hi all, I'm going to be speaking at the Email on Acid Email camp on 5th October. All virtual, all totally free, all good. Come along and join in. hello.mailjet.com/email-camp/?... #EmailGeeks #EmailCamp

Bluesky peeps: please go to Settings > Accessibility set the "Require alt text on images" switch to on. For screen reader users this comes as a button. This reminds you, to put alt text to your images before posting and you help make this place more usable for blind people! #a11y #accessibilty

Wow #EmailGeeks slack just hit 20,000 members! Such a great community the admins do an incredible job keeping it friendly, helpful and collaborative, and any spam is dealt with fast. Sign up here if it's of interest to you https://email.geeks.chat/

The Verge’s new way to display news item links is a terrible idea https://christianheilmann.com/2023/08/14/the-verges-new-way-to-display-news-item-links-is-a-terrible-idea/ Visually impaired users relying on quick access to links are left out. Can we stop re-inventing things that work?

Good article from @chriscoyier.net on email feature support. Great to see the EMC mentioned in there 😁 #EmailGeeks https://email-is-good.com/2023/08/01/email-feature-support/

Happy #BrightonPride, everyone 🏳️‍🌈. You can't have a rainbow without a bit of rain

Great news the Gmail background bug has now been assigned and escalated internally. You can follow the issue here https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/291989158 and report more cases you see in feedback https://support.google.com/mail/answer/9212652

New bug in Gmail #EmailGeeks 😞 Looks like it's no longer supporting background images. Hope it's a bug that gets fixed soon, just a few billion emails breaking currently. https://parcel.io/blog/gmail-and-background-images

Afternoon all, Who's on here? Any #EmailGeeks?