Some questions on accessibility in email — answered

Making email accessibility real

Beyond the Envelope™
7 min readSep 9, 2021
Email for All. Action Rocket and Beyond the Envelope. Email accessibility made real.

As email marketers, designers and developers, we’ve been implementing accessibility into our emails for some time now. But has it made it easier for the recipients of those emails to read and interact with them?

I wanted that question answered, and this led me to approach and partner with Action Rocket, launch ‘Email for All’, and our recent survey, to find out.

To answer that question, we, in fact, have to answer many questions. So, in our first survey, we asked questions about the visual presentation of email elements. The results were interesting, intriguing and insightful.

Are sans-serif fonts more accessible than serif fonts?

It’s often argued that sans-serif fonts are more accessible than serif fonts, and there’s nothing written in WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) to recommend one over the other. We presented both in our survey, and the results were interesting.

A) Roboto B) Dancing Script C) Roboto Slab D) Roboto Mono

79% of participants found Roboto, a sans-serif font, easy to read, and 74% found Roboto Slab, a…

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Beyond the Envelope™

Paul Airy – follower of Jesus, husband, father, Email Designer & Developer and Accessibility & Usability Consultant, with a fondness for typography. #EmailGeek