MailChimp

MailChimp supports various accessibility features in its emails and allows the creation of accessible emails through its built-in templates. The templates have been tested to be accessible to screen reader users and support a variety of email best practices for accessibility including headers, text formatting and design, lists, alternative text, and descriptive link text. 聽

  • Headers:聽Mail Chimp templates have heading levels 1-4 to organize the content in a hierarchical structure. Headings are located under the 鈥渟tyles tab鈥 in WYSIWYG.
MailChimp headers.
  • Images:聽Alternative text can be easily added onto images. When an image is selected, there is an 鈥淎lt鈥 tab where the user could input alternative text.
MailChimp Images Alt Text.
  • Links:聽Content creators can set link text for their hyperlinks. Hyperlinks are also underlined and have a different font color to distinguish it from regular text.聽
MailChimp Links.

Plain Text Version聽

All HTML email marketing campaigns have an auto-generated plain text version. Additionally, MailChimp also allows creators to distribute plain text emails to specific users who wish to opt-out emails with CSS. Plaintext emails strip down the CSS and only contain text. Refer to聽聽to build a plain text version.

MailChimp Plain Text.

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