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Re: Has anybody come across the "honeypot" technique with respect to accessibility?

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Aug 15, 2016 12:08PM

The honey-pot technique should have no accessibility implications if
implemented correctly. We hide ours with display:none and place it
after the submit button so it should not be accessed by any user. If
it is for some reason, we give it a label that informs the user to not
enter anything into the field. It works incredibly well at stopping
bots.

I wrote about this and other accessible spam-reduction techniques
several years ago at
http://webaim.org/blog/spam_free_accessible_forms/

Jared