Because you can't detect when a screen reader is there or not... ________________________________
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Or Golan Sent: 17 October 2007 15:33 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links Why not simply display the email address as a simple mailto only when the browser is a screen reader? On 10/17/07, Rick Lecoat < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: On 17/10/07 (14:16) Patrick said: >Fix your spam issues at the mail server + mail client end, not at the >web page end, would be my advice. David said: >I, long ago, gave up trying. Methods are either highly ineffective, >or block out users you want as well as spam bots. I take the view >that email addresses are going to end up on spam lists eventually no >matter what I do, and just run spam filtering software. So the general consensus would seem to be "forgeddabowdit". I wondered if that would be the result, but I'm surprised that there isn't a workaround -- only because almost everything else that I thought would be impossible some clever person has found a way to do. To join with Andrew Maben, however, I'd be curious to know whether spambots decode encoded entity text, eg: 'user' becomes 'user' (ignore quote marks). I assume that they can read them perfectly easily -- browsers can, after all -- but it'd be good to know for sure. Same question for screen readers. -- Rick Lecoat ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
