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Re: Popup windows and JAWS

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From: ckrugman
Date: Oct 28, 2009 11:30AM

glad to know that you haven't imploemented the captcha as it is a nightmare
for blind users. Even the audio captcha formats in many cases leave much to
be desired.
Chuck
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From: "James Leslie" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 4:43 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Popup windows and JAWS


>
> Thanks for the link, it's interesting. Without wanting to sidetrack the
> topic too much, I have had a live site for 4 years with a mailto link
> that has only received 2 pieces of spam in that time... both from the
> same company.
> I definitely agree about the default mail client aspect though.
> Unfortunately the web being such a young medium means there is no
> perfect answer to most of these solutions. Nearly every site I make uses
> contact forms instead of mailto links but they suffer from spam through
> the form, the only solution we currently have to this is a CAPTCHA,
> which have numerous problems of their own, so haven't been implemented.
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