RE: [PHP] protecting email addresses on a web site

-----Original Message----- From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 10:52 AM To: Dotan Cohen Cc: HallMarc Websites; David Mehler; php-general Subject: Re: [PHP] protecting email addresses on a web site On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 17:50 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 14 June 2010 15:36, HallMarc Websites <sales@hallmarcwebsites.com> wrote: > > Another is a CSS solution where you type the email address backwards and > > then use the CSS style declaration: > > style="direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: bidi-override;" > > > > How does that work with screen readers? How about copy-paste? > I don't think there's an accessible way of doing this. Anything that allows a screen reader to speak the email address would also be susceptible to spammers email scrapers. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk Copy-n-paste just gives you the email address backwards; screen readers, because we are using logical ordering and it is stored in memory the way we expect to read it, will read it correctly. I was not aware that email harvesters used screen readers. Do you have some documentation I could read to get up to speed on this? Marc Hall HallMarc Websites So many spammers, so few bullets... __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5199 (20100615) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com