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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

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...

emailmarkup.orgEmail clients are stripping out accessibility at the expense of user needs | Email Markup ConsortiumMany email clients, including Gmail, strip out code developers use to respect system-level accessibility preferences. Respecting user preferences is a clear accessibility requirement. Ignoring these i...

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Hussein Al Hammad | حسين آل حماد

@hussein-alhammad.com

3 June 2025

At @emailmarkup.org, we recognise that email comes with unique security and privacy challenges. This doesn't mean accessibility should be deprioritized.

Hussein Al Hammad | حسين آل حماد

@hussein-alhammad.com

3 June 2025

If you're building or configuring an email client's sanitizer, accessibility should be a consideration just like security and privacy are. If you're working on an email client or related tooling, we'd love to collaborate to help make email more inclusive.