Today's Fail
2019-03-23 20:00:58.85672+01 by Dan Lyke 2 comments
So I follow basic security practices with my email, among other things I don't load images embedded in email. I just received the following from our city's economic development manager, with the subject line: "You're Invited - Help Set Our City Goals".
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Yep, the entire damned content of the message is in images. The only thing that isn't is this little snippet of text.
Now you can say "sure, Dan, but how many competent computer users actually care about mail from the city?", I mean, after all, most people aren't competent computer users and are just using Outlook or whatever with the default settings, but...
Also think about this from the perspective of someone who's disabled and needs to use, say, an assistive screen reader?
I don't know whether to lay this incompetence on Constant Contact, or on the person sending the email, but it is distinctly *not* a good look on city staff.