WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: obfuscating email addresses

for

From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Feb 20, 2015 4:44AM

On 20/02/2015 10:21, _mallory wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:23:55PM -0600, Jeremy Merritt wrote:
>> <li>robert&#64;domain&#46;com</li>
>
> The entity version should always be exactly as accessible as no-entities.
> Browsers do the work of turning these into characters, long before any
> AT gets ahold of them.
> Then again, if a browser can do it, a bot can too. Just seems most don't
> bother.

Once they do, instead of trying to find another solution, I'd say the
longer-term advice is to invest in some good mail-server-side anti-spam
solutions instead, but maybe that's just me.

P
--
Patrick H. Lauke

www.splintered.co.uk | https://github.com/patrickhlauke
http://flickr.com/photos/redux/ | http://redux.deviantart.com
twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke