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

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From: _mallory
Date: Aug 16, 2016 9:07AM

I've used it but pull it offscreen, with a label clearly saying to
leave it blank.

There are bots who won't fill in display: none things, esp if they
are using Javascript or a fake browser (as some anti-spam detections
look to see if cookies can be given etc... fake browsers get around
this) and can't focus on display: none items.

Although, that's with our honeypots expecting bots to fill crap
in that field. We also keep the fields close to the top of the
form-- some bots stop partway and submit for some reason.

_mallory

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 12:08:39PM -0600, Jared Smith wrote:
> 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
> > > >