{"id":10059,"date":"2021-08-17T09:49:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T08:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/learningedge\/?p=10059"},"modified":"2022-10-20T11:55:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T10:55:14","slug":"the-key-to-email-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/learningedge\/2021\/08\/17\/the-key-to-email-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"The key to email accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We Digital Interns have lived and breathed accessibility for the last couple of months. If you were to ask any one of us for advice on how to make a document accessible, we could give you a bucket load of tips. It has now become second nature for us to use refinements to make our reports and presentations 100% accessible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, most of us continue to bash out an email on the keyboard without considering our dyslexic friend, or how it will translate to audio for the partially sighted students in our cohort.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The fact is, it\u2019s easy to make a couple of quick enhancements to the email template to ensure that all emails follow basic accessibility principles. Giving equal thought to formatting an email as you would to a Word document is crucial. For example, using heading structures and detailed alternative text when adding an image helps the partially sighted person understand the context of the document. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outlook offers the same accessibility features as other Microsoft products; a few seconds spent checking will ensure your important content is actioned by readers. There is nothing worse for a dyslexic than being faced with lines and lines of text.  They seem to mingle into one and become over facing, so keep emails succinct and to the point. Less is more.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here are some helpful tips to remember when composing an email:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n