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How to build emails which look good when images are blocked

Pretty nice exploration from Adrian Young on what kind of technical things you can do in an HTML email as a fallback when images don’t load.

I got a kick out of the table-based “mosiac” fallback.

Which there is a tool to help build if a pure pixel grid is what you’re after.

The answer is basically use text for as much as you can (don’t make an image just for styled text) and when you have to use an image, use alt text and style it to look nicer when the image fails.

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    Brennan Goewert

    This is an excellent reminder to include alt text on images whether they are on email or otherwise. The W3C even has a decision tree to help you recognize when to use alt text: https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/decision-tree/

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