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Re: Anti-spam email links in Javascript

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From: Paul Norman
Date: Apr 15, 2004 3:46PM


On 9-Apr-04, at 10:29 AM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, John Foliot - WATS.ca wrote:
>
>> I beg your pardon? You're saying that a form is *less* accessible
>> than an
>> email address? How can that be?
>
> People usually know how to use E-mail. Forms are more difficult.
> Besides,
> there assistive technologies for E-mail, whereas forms have primitive
> implementations in browsers. Did you ever see browser that has a
> spelling checker for the text you type into a form?

I use Safari, and have spell checking on all text areas and most other
form elements.


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