[tombert]

This is why I almost always send emails as plain text. I want people to be able to read their emails in any font they would like, not necessarily the font I used when I wrote the email.

This isn’t just superficial, some people might use certain fonts that are easier to read for dyslexia, and I don’t think I should make their life artificially harder if it’s trivial for me to simply send a message as plain text.

[franga2000]

The problem with that is that we've already lost this fight and now "plain text email" means "the recipient will see it in 11pt Courier New".

As for accessibility, the people who need that have already set up the required font overrides and other stuff so it doesn't really benefit them much to use plaintext.

It's sad to think about how things could have been, but that's not the world we live in now...

[tombert]

I am ok with them reading it as 11pt Courier New. To me the whole point of sending messages as plain text is that it doesn’t really matter to me how they read it. If they want to be lazy and read it with the default that’s fine by me, at least I gave them an option.

Also I like using text because it shows I’m not hiding any kind of tracking images or anything like that.