Re: [WSG] Site for Vision Impaired

2010-11-29 Thread Shawn Henry
On 11/26/2010 5:25 PM, Daniel Anderson wrote: I was wondering if any of you have done any work on sites for the visually impaired? I have just started a projet for a school for the visually impaired... What are the considerations I need to take into account with a project like this? eg ability

[WSG] alt text on email graphic

2010-11-29 Thread cat soul
The technique of using a graphic to communicate an email address in order to foil spiders or harvesters, like this: bob at domain dot com seems pretty clever. Yet, when I think about the alt text for that image, I'm wondering if that alt text could be exploited by spiders... would it be

RE: [WSG] alt text on email graphic

2010-11-29 Thread Ted Drake
If a spider could read the alt attribute, don't you think they could read the href attribute? Alt=j...@smith.com or href=mailto:j...@smith.com; It doesn't matter where you put the valid email address, the spiders will find it. However, messing with images will just make it more difficult on the

Re: [WSG] alt text on email graphic

2010-11-29 Thread cat soul
On Nov 29, 2010, at 4:38 PM, Ted Drake wrote: If a spider could read the alt attribute, don't you think they could read the href attribute? Alt=j...@smith.com or href=mailto:j...@smith.com; It doesn't matter where you put the valid email address, the spiders will find it. However, messing

RE: [WSG] alt text on email graphic

2010-11-29 Thread Michael MD
If a spider could read the alt attribute, don't you think they could read the href attribute? Alt=j...@smith.com or href=mailto:j...@smith.com; It doesn't matter where you put the valid email address, the spiders will find it. However, messing with images will just make it more

Re: [WSG] Site for Vision Impaired

2010-11-29 Thread Chad Kelly
- Original Message - From: Shawn Henry sh...@w3.org To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Cc: Daniel Anderson daniela...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 2:21 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] Site for Vision Impaired On 11/26/2010 5:25 PM, Daniel Anderson wrote: I was wondering if any of you

Re: [WSG] alt text on email graphic

2010-11-29 Thread Chad Kelly
- Original Message - From: cat soul cats...@thinkplan.org To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 11:03 AM Subject: [WSG] alt text on email graphic The technique of using a graphic to communicate an email address in order to foil spiders or harvesters, like

Re: [WSG] alt text on email graphic

2010-11-29 Thread Grant Bailey
This article might also help: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/spam/ Kind regards, Grant Bailey On 30/11/2010 3:47 PM, Chad Kelly wrote: - Original Message - From: cat soul cats...@thinkplan.org To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 11:03 AM Subject: [WSG]

Re: [WSG] alt text on email graphic

2010-11-29 Thread cat soul
On Nov 29, 2010, at 9:10 PM, Grant Bailey wrote: This article might also help: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/spam/ wow... wonder why the author didn't suggest the form method? cs *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] alt text on email graphic

2010-11-29 Thread Chad Kelly
- Original Message - From: cat soul cats...@thinkplan.org To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 4:21 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] alt text on email graphic On Nov 29, 2010, at 9:10 PM, Grant Bailey wrote: This article might also help: