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From: Mike Brockington
Date: Apr 8, 2004 9:36AM

I have been asked to produce a public-facing page containing email links. The user wants to avoid spam, but also wants to have AAA accessibility, which appears to be mutually exclusive. The page is produced by JSP, so I can write whatever HTML / Javascript I like, but I can't see how to get around the problem that a browser which does not have Javascript enabled will not be able to display the email address.
Is it acceptable to use a <no-script> tag to say something like: "email address obscured due to spam" ?
This would seem to me to go against the general principle of providing alternate versions of non-accessible content.
The only other option that I have been able to think of is to have the <noscript> section provide a link to a form-mail page. Do you think that this counts as 'equivalent' to a mailto: link?

Mike




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