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Email Accessibility

Email remediation

Your emails reach customers before your website does. We remediate marketing and transactional emails so they're readable, navigable, and usable with screen readers — in every major client.

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An accessible HTML email template shown with semantic headings, alt text, and high-contrast text.

What you get

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Semantic structure

Real headings, lists, and a logical reading order so screen-reader users can understand and navigate the message.

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Meaningful alt text

Descriptive alt text for content images and empty alt for decorative ones — so the email still makes sense with images off.

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Sufficient contrast

Text and key elements meet WCAG contrast requirements, including in dark mode where many clients invert colors.

04

Accessible CTAs & links

Bulletproof, clearly labelled buttons and links that are descriptive out of context and operable by keyboard and screen reader.

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Robust across clients

Tested for graceful behavior across Outlook, Gmail, Apple Mail, and mobile clients, where rendering and assistive tech vary widely.

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Reusable templates

We can remediate your master templates and ESP modules so every future send inherits accessibility automatically.

Your customers often read an email before they ever reach your website — order confirmations, password resets, newsletters, statements. If those emails aren’t accessible, you’ve put a barrier at the very front of the customer journey. Email remediation makes your HTML emails usable for everyone, including people who rely on screen readers.

Why email accessibility is its own discipline

Email is not the web. Clients support wildly different subsets of HTML and CSS, layouts are still built with tables, and the same message can render five different ways across Outlook, Gmail, and Apple Mail — each with its own screen-reader quirks and dark-mode handling. Accessibility techniques that are routine on a website frequently break in email, so emails need dedicated, client-aware remediation.

What we remediate

  • Document structure — a single logical reading order, proper headings, and role="presentation" on layout tables so they aren’t announced as data
  • Language & preheader — correct language attribute and a meaningful preview/preheader
  • Images — descriptive alt text for informative images, empty alt for decorative ones, so the message survives images-off
  • Contrast — sufficient contrast for text and buttons, verified in light and dark mode
  • Links & buttons — descriptive, keyboard- and screen-reader-friendly calls to action
  • Responsiveness — readable at any width and when zoomed, without horizontal scrolling

Our process

  1. Audit — We review your templates and representative campaigns with screen readers across major clients.
  2. Remediation — We fix structure, alt text, contrast, and interaction issues in the HTML.
  3. Testing — We verify rendering and assistive-technology behavior across the client matrix.
  4. Templates — We bake the fixes into your master templates and ESP modules so future sends stay accessible.

Who it’s for

Marketing, CRM, and product teams that send at scale — retailers, banks, SaaS, and any organization with transactional or campaign email. Pair email remediation with process improvement to keep every future send accessible, and with consulting to align it with your wider compliance program.

Frequently asked questions

Why do emails need accessibility work separately from the website?

Email HTML is its own world: limited CSS support, table-based layouts, and dozens of inconsistent clients. Techniques that work on the web often fail in email, so emails need dedicated remediation.

Do you fix individual emails or our templates?

Both. We can remediate specific high-value campaigns and transactional emails, and — more cost-effectively — fix the master templates and modules in your ESP so every send is accessible by default.

Which email clients do you account for?

The major ones: Outlook (desktop and web), Gmail, Apple Mail, and mobile clients on iOS and Android, including how each behaves with screen readers and dark mode.

Do accessible emails perform worse visually?

No. Accessibility improves clarity and robustness — better structure, readable contrast, and images-off resilience — which tends to help deliverability and engagement, not hurt design.

Does this support EAA compliance?

Email is part of the customer communications many organizations must make accessible. Remediated emails support your broader WCAG 2.2 and EAA conformance for digital communications.

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