My EARL for dummies article is now available in French. I had to adapt it somewhat, mainly lose the references to the television show as I suspect many francophones would have no clue what I was talking about. And I have decided to post it via my personal Web page because it is a real pain adding French content to this blog.
Happy Hallowe’en !
Mon article sur EARL pour les nuls est maintenant disponible en français. J’ai dû l’adapter un peu et plus particulièrement, retirer toutes les références concernant l’émission de télé car j’imagine que ça ne dirait pas grand-chose aux francophones. Aussi, j’ai décidé de le mettre en ligne via ma page Web personnelle car c’est vraiment chiant ajouter du contenu français à ce blogue.
Boo !
A question came up this morning on the French accessibility mailing list hosted by AccessiWeb about e-mails using HTML format. This question stemmed from the person having received a newsletter in HTML format and reflecting on how inaccessible it could be given that it was basically a bunch of clickable images “sausaged” together with no textual equivalents for the text contained in these images.
In my experience, questions relating to accessibility of e-mail communication are rather rare but they do pop up every once in a while. And I have thought about this a bit over the years and poked around to find any resources or discussions on the subject of specific guidelines or techniques or well-identified policies. There is not a lot of easy-to-find material out there that addresses the topic of e-mail content accessibility though I have not done a full-on search in a good while (if you know of any, please send them along).
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