RE: Hiding email addresses in an accessible way

> For those of you in the US Federal Government, this could also be said:
> "A good government web site will comply with Section 508 sub section
> 1194.22 (web applications).  The use of mailto: would not be as clean and
> would require compliance with an additional sub section 1194.21
> (client-side applications).  Web aps should be web aps, not web aps plus
> client-side aps.

mailto: URIs do not make an application a client-side app; they provide
information which can be processed by another application, which may or may
not be a client-side app. This no more violates some concept of what a web
application is or is not than the fact that many of them feature
human-readable text that must be processed by a brain rather than another
part of the web-app.

The application that may process the mailto: URI would need to comply with
1194.21 if appropriate, but that's not your problem.

Received on Monday, 18 August 2003 10:16:23 UTC