The subject line says it all, but if you want background: (obligatory I'm not blind, but) emails my bank sends are HTML, with fancy formatting and all that junk. However (as is the norm for reasonably sized companies) every email they send has a copy that's written in plain text, which should be great because I prefer plain text emails (largely because they're forced to use my default font / size / color settings). The only problem is that my bank's plain text emails are worse than useless: they omit critical information. For example, I got an email saying I had a debit transaction of "$ " dated " ", so if I actually want to find out when it occurred, or how much was charged to my card, I have to switch to the HTML version of the email. I'd finally decided to complain, when I realized that they'd more likely to fix it if it were an issue for their blind users, hence the question: does your screen reader read the plain text or HTML version of emails?