On 10/17/07, Rick Lecoat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > can anyone tell me what is the best accessible way (if any) of encoding > a mailto: link? I want to make the email addresses on a site usable to > screen reader users, but don't want them harvested by spambots.
Hi Rick, You might be interested in an experiment I ran that compared a few techniques for protecting one's email address from harvesting bots. The short answer: entity references worked very well and do not need Javascript to work. I am not an accessibility guru so I can't say how friendly that is to screen readers and the like, but I reckon you have plenty of people on this list who can inform you on that score. http://NikitaTheSpider.com/articles/IngenReklamTack.html Hope this helps -- Philip http://NikitaTheSpider.com/ Whole-site HTML validation, link checking and more ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
