Overview

This lesson explains the differences in email clients and how they affect your ability to compose accessible email messages.

Core Concepts

What are email clients?

An email client is a program that can send and receive email. Clients can be on your desktop, like Outlook, or on the web, like Gmail or Outlook for Office 365. You may be able to access the same email from both a web-based client and a desktop client. The important thing to know is that not all email clients have the same accessibility or formatting tools available.

The University of Oregon uses Microsoft's Outlook for email. As such, this module will focus on the features available in Outlook.

Differences in Mail Clients

In general, desktop clients have a wider range of accessibility features available than web clients.

Pages in this Module

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Image-Only Email
Composing Accessible Emails in Outlook
Email Campaigns