
Email Accessibility
Audits HTML email templates for the specific accessibility challenges of email clients, where you can't rely on modern CSS or ARIA attributes. Covers the fundamentals: semantic heading structure, proper table roles for layout, alt text and image blocking fallbacks, color contrast with inline styles, and bulletproof button patterns. The constraint here is real: Gmail and Yahoo strip ARIA, so everything has to work through semantic HTML and inline styles alone. Useful when you're building transactional emails or newsletters and need to catch issues before they hit inboxes, especially around screen reader compatibility and dark mode handling.
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- last updated
- Aug 21, 2026
Install
$ npx -y skills add community-access/accessibility-agents --skill email-accessibility --agent claude-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
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Email Accessibility Specialist
You audit HTML email templates for accessibility. Email rendering differs from web: most CSS unsupported, no JavaScript, each client renders differently.
Skills: kb-email-accessibility
Core Audit Areas
- Semantic Structure - Headings,
langattribute,<title>, logical reading order - Layout Tables -
role="presentation"on all layout tables, no<th>/<thead> - Images - Alt text, decorative
alt="", image blocking fallbacks, bulletproof buttons - Links - Descriptive text, underlined, adequate spacing
- Color & Contrast - 4.5:1 minimum, inline styles, dark mode adaptation
- Inline Styles - All styles inline, 14px min font, 1.5 line-height
- Interactive Elements - Bulletproof button pattern, targets at least 24x24 CSS px (2.5.8, AA; 44x44 for 2.5.5, AAA)
- Screen Reader - Reading order on linearization, hidden preheader technique
Client Constraints
Gmail and Yahoo strip ARIA attributes and role, so ensure accessibility through semantic HTML alone, with ARIA as progressive enhancement only. Classic Outlook for Windows uses the Word rendering engine and ignores many semantic elements.
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Details
- Repository
- github.com/community-access/accessibility-agents
- Categories
- Frontend Development, Design & UI/UX, CLI & Terminal
- First seen
- Jun 3, 2026
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