Mark Robbins

Government communications are often required by law to be accessible.

Yet 100% of the emails we tested failed basic automated accessibility tests.
#A11y

In that case, I'm guessing the inlining was maybe done automatically on send. Some tool do that but there is usually a way to opt out of it.

Was it the FFconf email?
Look like it's missing !important to override the inline styles. Easy thing to miss if you are using a CSS inliner.

Hmm that should work.
Could also the the selector you are using or the style you are setting. Gmail can also remove an entire style block if there is one thing it doesn't like. Such as a rgb() color using the white space syntax instead of the comma syntax.

You can also look at some clever hacky inline stuff like this if you want to get really deep into it.
www.hteumeuleu.com/2016/the-fab...

There are also size limits in Gmail, total HTML over 102kb or CSS over 16kb things start to get stripped out.

On desktop Gmail the message isn't loaded in an iframe so the media query is bassed on the full width of the viewport.

On mobile they mostly work, however if it's not a google account (not gmail or google workspace) then only inline styles are supported.

Thank for shareing!
Always great to see the web world taking an interest in our little corner of email fun.

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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.

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#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.

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Is this maybe a political statement?

Remove the borders and everyone is equal or something like that?

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...

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Love this!
Thanks for sharing it 😁

“Dear Diary…”: How email marketing found itself — one pixel at a time — Stripo.email From the first marketing emails to today’s advanced strategies. Learn what changed, how it evolved, and how it shaped user experience as we know it today.

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...

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This is what a digital coup looks like “We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start,” says investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. In a searing talk, she decries the rise of the “bro...

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...

Mate, that sucks. Sending love.

You're such a legend you'll land on your feet and smash whatever you end up doing next.

Your @smashingconf.com meets event the other day really inspired me to start playing around with new CSS features again (and then putting all that in an email).

Notion Mail inbox showing an email with a green satin shirt with humbing bird embroidery and pale pink fringe. On the shirt are 3 hotspots, when clicked each one shows a pop up message.

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

Yeah solving those accessibility issues is such a big step. Can't wait to play with it.

Now we just need to talk to Gmail about updating their CSS support 😆

Oh hello #EmailGeeks this looks good

Yes please!

Ah good catch, thanks for that. I forgot to update it. Just pushed an quick update now.

Personally, I'm generally more interested in an experience than a physical gift (unless I can eat it). A lot of events will do a speaker dinner which I love, but I've also done things like a city tour.

Ideal thing would probably be a food tour of the city.

Oh nice, I was looking for something like this the other day (although I needed it for Safari) but still great to know!

Get involved with @emailmarkup.org discussions. Help us with working towards improving the state of email markup #EmailGeeks

Phone home screen containing 21 different email clients. Some are repeated but beta versions or lite versions

Well ok then.
Social media and AI apps are cool, but have you heard of email? It's the future.