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Some questions on accessibility in email — answered
- Some interesting nuggets of information here, resulting from a survey of 162 respondents (yes, the sample size is too small to have a lot of confidence in these results).
- 98% of people find a font size of 16px easy to read, compared to 70% for 14px (a font size that is “often cited as being accessible”). Participants generally did not find 12px easy to read.
- 88% of participants found a line height of 1.5em easy to read; it was the best performing line height out of the options available (various options from 1em to 2em).
- There was a clear preference for “accessible text links” (links using border-bottom for their underline), rather than the standard
text-decoration: underlinelinks. This approach is to “benefit people living with dyslexia, for whom underlining can cause text to run together, or collide”. I don’t remember coming across this before, so the Accessible Text Links article is worth a read too.
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