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Hussein Al Hammad | حسين آل حماد

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Email Ecosystem Advocate | Admin @ Email Markup Consortium | Team Lead @ Flourish

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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 11/09/2026
🎉 Great news folks, the good people at Gmail have finally fixed the forced dark mode issue. In both the iOS and Android apps 🎉 They now support setting the color-scheme meta tag prevent the forced dark colors being used <​meta name="color-scheme" content="light only" /> #EmailGeeks
A Gmail logo on the left with an inverted dark mode version of the Gmail logo to the right. Both are large M shaped logos that sort of resemble an envelope
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Hussein Al Hammad | حسين آل حماد @hussein-alhammad.com · 01/07/2026
Me: How do I implement x? AI: Option 1 (recommended) [explanation...] Option 2 [explanation...] "I actually prefer this approach because it's cleaner."
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Email Markup Consortium @emailmarkup.org · 21/05/2026
While developers play a role here, the reality is this is a systemic ecosystem problem across senders, tooling and email clients. Accessibility needs to become part of the authoring and QA process itself, rather than a post-build checklist.
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Email Markup Consortium @emailmarkup.org · 21/05/2026
The result: • 99.88% triggered Serious or Critical accessibility issues • Only 8 emails passed all automated checks • Most failures were basic, machine-checkable issues
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Hussein Al Hammad | حسين آل حماد @hussein-alhammad.com · 21/05/2026
EMC's annual report on the State of Accessibility in Email is our way to participate in #GAAD in a meaningful way While overall stats are negative, the response to past reports has always been encouraging based on our talks with developers, framework/build tools and email clients
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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 12/12/2025
The Email Markup Database is live! Did you know that ~20% of emails collected still use the <center> element but only 0.5% of emails use <picture>. Well you do know, and there is loads more exciting information to find as you dig in database.emailmarkup.org
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The Email Markup Database
Usage metrics and insight from 1M+ real world emails
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Hussein Al Hammad | حسين آل حماد @hussein-alhammad.com · 12/12/2025
Real usage metrics from 1M+ real-world emails. The Email Markup Database is a major step toward a more transparent and collaborative ecosystem. With this level of data, we can identify gaps and have constructive discussion on how email clients and ESPs can evolve.
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Email Markup Consortium @emailmarkup.org · 13/10/2025
This kind of openness and collaboration benefits everyone in the email ecosystem. We’d love to see more email clients follow Proton Mail’s lead in sharing accurate, transparent data with the community. emailmarkup.org/en/blog/2025...
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Proton Mail rise up the accessibility rankings | Email Markup Consortium
We’ve updated our 2025 Accessibility Report after Proton Mail updated its data on “Can I Email?”. It’s a reminder of how transparency and collaboration can push the email industry forward.
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Email Markup Consortium @emailmarkup.org · 13/10/2025
Proton Mail (@proton.me) noticed that some of their data on "Can I Email?" was outdated, and took the initiative to update it themselves. As a result, our 2025 Accessibility Report now reflects a much more accurate picture of Proton Mail’s strong accessibility support.
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Hussein Al Hammad | حسين آل حماد @hussein-alhammad.com · 30/09/2025
The Netanyahu list is just as bad as the Epstein list
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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 30/09/2025
This is grotesque. I lost any love for Vercel & Next years ago, but seeing him cozy up with genocide in Gaza — is beyond words. I feel for the employees. The horrifying truth: businesses that worked with the Nazis didn’t fall to capitalism. It’s down to us, we have to take our business elsewhere.
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 30/09/2025
There’s never been a better time to switch from Next.js to Astro nitter.net/rauchg/statu...
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Hussein Al Hammad | حسين آل حماد @hussein-alhammad.com · 11/07/2025
The RTL experience on many apps just has untested-still-in-dev feel. Sometimes it is indeed tricky (e.g. media controls), but basic things are often overlooked.
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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 08/07/2025
🔥 I have news! After a 1y hiatus, I’m once again leading this year’s #StateOfHTML survey, thanks to generous funding by Google. ❤️ 🙋🏽‍♀️ Is there is an HTML feature or Web API you're dying to see progress on? Suggest it and it could be included! [1/2] lea.verou.me/blog/2025/de...
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Influence the State of HTML 2025 Survey! • Lea Verou
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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 05/07/2025
A more hopeful, nuanced take on programming and AI medium.com/@kt149/githu...
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GitHub CEO says the ‘smartest’ companies will hire more software engineers not less as AI develops
Despite the wave of layoffs and hiring freezes across the tech industry, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke isn’t worried about the future of…
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Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 25/06/2025
Still a week left to take the State of CSS survey! The survey hasn't got as many responses as last year, so any help sharing will be much appreciated :) survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...
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State of CSS 2025
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Hussein Al Hammad | حسين آل حماد @hussein-alhammad.com · 23/06/2025
Email preview text has never had a proper spec, but it could. Google's Gmail and Yahoo Mail already support Schema structured data. Adding support for a standardized metadata-based preview text isn't a technical leap; it's the natural next step.
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Email Markup Consortium @emailmarkup.org · 10/06/2025
Sign the EMC supporters list and show the industry Email Accessibility matters! Add your name: emailmarkup.org/en/supporters/ #a11y
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Supporters of the Email Markup Consortium
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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 06/06/2025
Web sites with a Facebook pixel were communicating with local native apps (Instagram, Facebook, maybe WhatsApp) to log (and attribute) incognito web browsing activity. Write-up: localmess.github.io Story: english.elpais.com/technology/2...
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Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android
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Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 04/06/2025
The 2025 State of CSS survey is now open! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...
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State of CSS 2025
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Hussein Al Hammad | حسين آل حماد @hussein-alhammad.com · 04/06/2025
Does anyone else "feel the clipboard" at the tip of their fingers after they copy something on their computer?
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Hussein Al Hammad | حسين آل حماد @hussein-alhammad.com · 03/06/2025
Products with better accessibility are built when accessibility is considered early in the process, not as an afterthought. The same principle should apply to email clients.
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Hussein Al Hammad | حسين آل حماد @hussein-alhammad.com · 27/05/2025
It's hard to reconcile the excellence of Google Chrome with the limited accessibility support in Gmail. We know Google has the talent and track record; so why not bring that same energy to email?
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Hussein Al Hammad | حسين آل حماد @hussein-alhammad.com · 26/05/2025
In some environments, change can only happen mid air hussein-alhammad.com/blog/2025/05...
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Mid Air
The risk isn't in changing mid air, but in assuming we never have to.
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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 23/05/2025
Government communications are often required by law to be accessible. Yet 100% of the emails we tested failed basic automated accessibility tests. #A11y
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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 16/05/2025
Following on from the @emailmarkup.org Accessibility Report yesterday. If you support the work we're doing to make email markup more accessible, more consistent and all round better. Please add your name to the list. emailmarkup.org/en/supporters/ #EmailGeeks
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Supporters | Email Markup Consortium
Supporters of the Email Markup Consortium
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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 15/05/2025
We've just put our the latest Email Accessibility Report. There has been some improvement from previous years, but the results are still pretty dire. So today on #GAAD please take a moment to look at fixing at least one thing in your emails.
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Hussein Al Hammad | حسين آل حماد @hussein-alhammad.com · 15/05/2025
Today is GAAD, a good opportunity to reflect on the state of accessibility in the email ecosystem (email clients, ESPs, build tools, developers). Looking at real-world data, the sad truth is the whole ecosystem is failing the recpients - the most important party of the ecosystem.
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Hussein Al Hammad | حسين آل حماد @hussein-alhammad.com · 28/02/2025
Sometimes the only way to make stakeholders care about accessibility is by showing a direct impact. An all-image HTML email looks flashy, but dies in the inbox An accessible HTML email is consumed by both humans and computers. Free push notification 🔔
Google Assistant sends a push notification after it analysed an accessible HTML email instead of an all-image email
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Hussein Al Hammad | حسين آل حماد @hussein-alhammad.com · 12/12/2024
This is a great example of how standards make a massive difference. Dealing with accessibility issues in web dev can feel like "easy mode" in comparison to email dev where there is zero standards when it comes to HTML messages.
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Hussein Al Hammad | حسين آل حماد @hussein-alhammad.com · 09/12/2024
This is a fun frontend challenge. You don't have to be interested in email to find this interesting and discuss it with us.
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