Me: How do I implement x? AI: Option 1 (recommended) [explanation...] Option 2 [explanation...] "I actually prefer this approach because it's cleaner."

While developers play a role here, the reality is this is a systemic ecosystem problem across senders, tooling and email clients. Accessibility needs to become part of the authoring and QA process itself, rather than a post-build checklist.

The result: • 99.88% triggered Serious or Critical accessibility issues • Only 8 emails passed all automated checks • Most failures were basic, machine-checkable issues

EMC's annual report on the State of Accessibility in Email is our way to participate in #GAAD in a meaningful way While overall stats are negative, the response to past reports has always been encouraging based on our talks with developers, framework/build tools and email clients

Email Markup Consortium@emailmarkup.org · 3mo ago

The 2026 Email Accessibility Report is now live! We analyzed 376,348 HTML emails across industries, geographies and platforms. mremail.dev/3PFRAR8 #GAAD #EmailGeeks

The Email Markup Database is live! Did you know that ~20% of emails collected still use the <center> element but only 0.5% of emails use <picture>. Well you do know, and there is loads more exciting information to find as you dig in database.emailmarkup.org

The Email Markup Database

Usage metrics and insight from 1M+ real world emails

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Email Markup Consortium@emailmarkup.org · 9mo ago

In 2022, we began our Data Collection project with a clear vision for how this data could benefit the ecosystem starting with our annual accessibility reports. Today, we’re excited to announce the next major step in that vision: The Email Markup Database emailmarkup.org/en/blog/2025...

Real usage metrics from 1M+ real-world emails. The Email Markup Database is a major step toward a more transparent and collaborative ecosystem. With this level of data, we can identify gaps and have constructive discussion on how email clients and ESPs can evolve.

Email Markup Consortium@emailmarkup.org · 9mo ago

In 2022, we began our Data Collection project with a clear vision for how this data could benefit the ecosystem starting with our annual accessibility reports. Today, we’re excited to announce the next major step in that vision: The Email Markup Database emailmarkup.org/en/blog/2025...

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. emailmarkup.org/en/blog/2025...

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.

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Proton Mail (@proton.me) 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.

The Netanyahu list is just as bad as the Epstein list

This is grotesque. I lost any love for Vercel & Next years ago, but seeing him cozy up with genocide in Gaza — is beyond words. I feel for the employees. The horrifying truth: businesses that worked with the Nazis didn’t fall to capitalism. It’s down to us, we have to take our business elsewhere.

Andy Bell@bell.bz · 11mo ago

There’s never been a better time to switch from Next.js to Astro nitter.net/rauchg/statu...

There’s never been a better time to switch from Next.js to Astro nitter.net/rauchg/statu...

The RTL experience on many apps just has untested-still-in-dev feel. Sometimes it is indeed tricky (e.g. media controls), but basic things are often overlooked.

🔥 I have news! After a 1y hiatus, I’m once again leading this year’s #StateOfHTML survey, thanks to generous funding by Google. ❤️ 🙋🏽‍♀️ Is there is an HTML feature or Web API you're dying to see progress on? Suggest it and it could be included! [1/2] lea.verou.me/blog/2025/de...

Influence the State of HTML 2025 Survey! • Lea Verou

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A more hopeful, nuanced take on programming and AI medium.com/@kt149/githu...

GitHub CEO says the ‘smartest’ companies will hire more software engineers not less as AI develops

Despite the wave of layoffs and hiring freezes across the tech industry, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke isn’t worried about the future of…

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Still a week left to take the State of CSS survey! The survey hasn't got as many responses as last year, so any help sharing will be much appreciated :) survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

State of CSS 2025

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Email preview text has never had a proper spec, but it could. Google's Gmail and Yahoo Mail already support Schema structured data. Adding support for a standardized metadata-based preview text isn't a technical leap; it's the natural next step.

Email Markup Consortium@emailmarkup.org · last yr.

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... #Interoperability #standards #EmailClients

Sign the EMC supporters list and show the industry Email Accessibility matters! Add your name: emailmarkup.org/en/supporters/ #a11y

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Supporters of the Email Markup Consortium

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Email Markup Consortium@emailmarkup.org · last yr.

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.

Web sites with a Facebook pixel were communicating with local native apps (Instagram, Facebook, maybe WhatsApp) to log (and attribute) incognito web browsing activity. Write-up: localmess.github.io Story: english.elpais.com/technology/2...

The 2025 State of CSS survey is now open! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

State of CSS 2025

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Does anyone else "feel the clipboard" at the tip of their fingers after they copy something on their computer?

Products with better accessibility are built when accessibility is considered early in the process, not as an afterthought. The same principle should apply to email clients.

Email Markup Consortium@emailmarkup.org · last yr.

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...

It's hard to reconcile the excellence of Google Chrome with the limited accessibility support in Gmail. We know Google has the talent and track record; so why not bring that same energy to email?

Email Markup Consortium@emailmarkup.org · last yr.

Respecting user preferences is a basic accessibility principle, but Google's Gmail makes it nearly impossible for developers to do this. Email clients should enable developers to query the user's system or browser-level settings, like reduced motion or color scheme.

In some environments, change can only happen mid air hussein-alhammad.com/blog/2025/05...

Mid Air

The risk isn't in changing mid air, but in assuming we never have to.

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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

Email Markup Consortium@emailmarkup.org · last yr.

Every government email message in our dataset failed to comply with accessibility requirements. This creates significant barriers for users who rely on assistive technologies. Governments have a responsibility to ensure communications, including email, are accessible to as many people as possible.

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

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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.

Email Markup Consortium@emailmarkup.org · last yr.

It's that time of year again. To celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day we've released our annual email accessibility report. Unfortunately less than 0.01% of emails passed all automated test, so this is a call to action to do better. emailmarkup.org/en/reports/a... #GAAD #EmailGeeks #A11y

Today is GAAD, a good opportunity to reflect on the state of accessibility in the email ecosystem (email clients, ESPs, build tools, developers). Looking at real-world data, the sad truth is the whole ecosystem is failing the recpients - the most important party of the ecosystem.

Email Markup Consortium@emailmarkup.org · last yr.

It's that time of year again. To celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day we've released our annual email accessibility report. Unfortunately less than 0.01% of emails passed all automated test, so this is a call to action to do better. emailmarkup.org/en/reports/a... #GAAD #EmailGeeks #A11y

Sometimes the only way to make stakeholders care about accessibility is by showing a direct impact. An all-image HTML email looks flashy, but dies in the inbox An accessible HTML email is consumed by both humans and computers. Free push notification 🔔

This is a great example of how standards make a massive difference. Dealing with accessibility issues in web dev can feel like "easy mode" in comparison to email dev where there is zero standards when it comes to HTML messages.

Email Markup Consortium@emailmarkup.org · 2y ago

In this article, Sarah Gallardo discusses how different the accessibility challenges between web vs email dev are: a11y.email/the-accessib...

This is a fun frontend challenge. You don't have to be interested in email to find this interesting and discuss it with us.

Email Markup Consortium@emailmarkup.org · 2y ago

How should a web app allow third-party HTML to make use of the CSS prefers-color-scheme media feature? Mark Robbins (@goodemailcode.com) has some good ideas utilising modern CSS features. Join the discussion on GitHub: github.com/email-markup...