From bmackey88 at gmail.com Tue Nov 19 16:53:28 2024 From: bmackey88 at gmail.com (Brian Mackey) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 11:53:28 -0500 Subject: [NFB-Web] hiding email addresses displaying on the web Message-ID: <58da01db3aa3$8f028970$ad079c50$@gmail.com> Greetings to all, While putting up the convention agenda for the NJ affiliate last month, I discovered a foolproof way of displaying an email address on the web that hides it from spam bots. The technique is called Obfuscation. Basically it scrambles the HTML version of the email address so that the spam bots can't detect that it is an email address but still readable by humans. There is a tool that can automate the process for you. Here is the URL to that tool: https://www.searchenginegenie.com/Obfuscate-email-tool.php This tool is FREE to use. Brian A. Mackey Brian A. Mackey President, National Federation of the Blind of PA Greater Berks Chapter Webmaster, National Federation of the Blind Multiple State Affiliates Board Member & Webmaster, Middle Atlantic Blind Golf Association 609-680-8488 Bmackey88 at gmail.com "Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make those dreams come true" -Vince Papale -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ajacobs633 at aol.com Tue Nov 19 18:04:56 2024 From: ajacobs633 at aol.com (Arthur Jacobs) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:04:56 -0500 Subject: [NFB-Web] hiding email addresses displaying on the web In-Reply-To: <58da01db3aa3$8f028970$ad079c50$@gmail.com> References: <58da01db3aa3$8f028970$ad079c50$@gmail.com> Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bmackey88 at gmail.com Tue Nov 19 18:32:25 2024 From: bmackey88 at gmail.com (Brian Mackey) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:32:25 -0500 Subject: [NFB-Web] hiding email addresses displaying on the web In-Reply-To: References: <58da01db3aa3$8f028970$ad079c50$@gmail.com> Message-ID: <593b01db3ab1$61798d60$246ca820$@gmail.com> I am not sure in regards to Braille displays, but screen readers read it the same way as if you are doing the HTML coding for a non-encrypted email address. On the back end of the website it will be the encrypted HTML coding generated by the tool. On the front end of the website it will be the normal email address (e.g. webmaster at nfbnj.org ). The main difference is that instead of doing you use whatever code the tool has generated, plus the code generated by the tool will confuse the spam bot scrapers. From: Arthur Jacobs Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2024 1:05 PM To: NFB Webmaster's List Cc: Brian Mackey Subject: Re: [NFB-Web] hiding email addresses displaying on the web I?m curious about how this HTML obfuscation is handled by screen readers and brow devices. ? Arthur On Nov 19, 2024, at 11:55?AM, Brian Mackey via NFB-Web > wrote: ? Greetings to all, While putting up the convention agenda for the NJ affiliate last month, I discovered a foolproof way of displaying an email address on the web that hides it from spam bots. The technique is called Obfuscation. Basically it scrambles the HTML version of the email address so that the spam bots can?t detect that it is an email address but still readable by humans. There is a tool that can automate the process for you. Here is the URL to that tool: https://www.searchenginegenie.com/Obfuscate-email-tool.php This tool is FREE to use. Brian A. Mackey Brian A. Mackey President, National Federation of the Blind of PA Greater Berks Chapter Webmaster, National Federation of the Blind Multiple State Affiliates Board Member & Webmaster, Middle Atlantic Blind Golf Association 609-680-8488 Bmackey88 at gmail.com ?Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make those dreams come true? -Vince Papale _______________________________________________ NFB-Web mailing list NFB-Web at nfbnet.org http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-web_nfbnet.org To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFB-Web: http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfb-web_nfbnet.org/ajacobs633%40aol.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: