RE: Hiding email addresses in an accessible way

> I personally take the entity-encoded example a step further and
> URL-encode parts of the email link as well. An example:
>
> <a href="m&#97;ilto:username&#37;40hostname&#37;2ecom">username<abbr
> title=" at ">@</abbr>hostname<abbr title=" dot ">.</abbr>com</a>
>
> I have no idea how "smart" email harvesters are these days, but it
> probably isn't worth the effort for them to decode this kind of address
> considering how many plain-text emails are available.

I can assure you that there are some very smart ones out there. The above
will be processed correctly by those, and also by simpler ones built around
HTML-processing libraries.