Working to improve the accessibility, user experience, performance, consistency, and reliability of email markup

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For the first time, the 2026 Email Accessibility Report audited newsletter and marketing platforms with built-in email builders. We analyzed: • 6,909 @Substack emails • 2,189 @beehiiv emails • 1,468 @Shopify Email campaigns
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100% triggered at least one automated accessibility failure. These findings indicate that platform defaults and generated markup have enormous influence over accessibility outcomes at scale.
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The 2026 Email Accessibility Report is now live We analyzed 376,348 HTML emails across industries, geographies and platforms • 99.88% triggered Serious or Critical issues • Only 8 emails passed all automated checks • Most failures were basic, machine-checkable issues
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While developers play a role, this is a systemic ecosystem problem across senders, tooling and email clients. Read the full report mremail.dev/3PFRAR8 #GAAD #A11Y #EmailGeeks #WebAccessibility #WebStandards #WCAG
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Proton Mail (@ProtonPrivacy) noticed that some of their data on "Can I Email?" was outdated, and took the initiative to update it themselves. As a result, our 2025 Accessibility Report now reflects a much more accurate picture of Proton Mail’s strong accessibility support.
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For years, email developers have relied on invisible spacing hacks to influence what appears alongside the subject line in the inbox. But there can be a cleaner, more consistent approach: a simple meta tag.
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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. emailmarkup.org/en/blog/2025…
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No need to reinvent the wheel. Just a shared, interoperable way to explicitly set the preview text. #Interoperability #standards #EmailClients
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Sign the EMC supporters list and show the industry Email Accessibility matters! Add your name: emailmarkup.org/en/supporter… #a11y
Accessibility in email is hard enough. When email clients block even the most basic accessibility features, they’re not limiting creativity; they’re limiting access.
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Accessibility in email is hard enough. When email clients block even the most basic accessibility features, they’re not limiting creativity; they’re limiting access.
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Respecting user preferences is non-negotiable for inclusive digital communication. It's time email clients enable developers to build more accessible HTML emails.
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In celebration of #GAAD, we have published our annual email accessibility report. Accessibility in HTML emails remains critically under-addressed in 2025. Across the ecosystem, accessibility failures are systemic, widespread, and largely preventable. emailmarkup.org/en/reports/a…
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If you believe in the importance of accessibility in email, join 200 industry professionals and add your signature: emailmarkup.org/en/supporter…

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Email Markup Consortium retweeted
This is a fun frontend challenge. You don't have to be interested in email to find this interesting and discuss it with us.
How should a web app allow third-party HTML to make use of the CSS prefers-color-scheme media feature? Mark Robbins has some good ideas utilising modern CSS features. Join the discussion on GitHub: github.com/email-markup-cons…
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