RE: HTML email and Accessibility

Hi Vic,

 

In the USA, the financial services industry is required to conform to many different regulations. Specific to accessibility, I have found that financial services organizations will frequently select a web site conformance requirement (Example: WCAG 2.0 AA). From an architectural point of view, one of the challenges then becomes how to develop a Quality Assurance testing process that can act as a safety net to insure that content pushed to a web page actually meets the relevant organizational requirements.

 

A major regulatory change coming soon in the USA involves a regulation known as Section 508. Sometime this fall, a refresh to the regulation is expected to be published and one of the things it is expected to stipulate is that PDF formatted content made available via a web site will need to meet accessibility conformance guidelines (Example: PDF/UA). This particular PDF focused standard outlines testable criteria so it is reasonably straight forward to build a Quality Assurance test regime to validate whether a PDF meets appropriate accessibility criteria or not.

 

I have encountered the same difficulties as those captured in this e-mail thread from a few years ago when looking for accessibility conformance guidelines for HTML formatted e-mail: http://webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread?thread=4486

 

I was wondering whether anyone knew of any standards (like WCAG 2.0), which had been developed to provide accessibility conformance guidelines specific to composing HTML e-mail?

 

Thanks.

 

Best Regards,

 

/Paul

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From: Vic Dinovici [mailto:viconemails@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 1, 2016 10:04 PM
To: Paul Tykodi <ptykodi@tykodi.com>; public-htmail@w3.org
Subject: Re: HTML email and Accessibility

 

Hey mate,

What exactly do you need?

 

Cheers, Vic 

 

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Subject: HTML email and Accessibility

 

Hi,

 

I am currently working on a Customer Communications Management architecture project for a financial services firm. 

 

Right now I am looking for good reference material, which speaks to meeting conformance requirements for accessibility when composing HTML formatted e-mail.

 

Any recommendations will be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks.

 

Best Regards,

 

/Paul

 

 



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