E-Mail Icon Generator

Just slightly late with a reply but wanted to add a thought.... Jared was so right. Me I'm a total bling freak and never gave visually impaired issues a second thought. Dan of course has a great point too. It seems this is a simple case of a double-edged sword. Although I think there is reader software that reads text on images. Please don't quote me on that but I think it's called 'READiris'. If my understanding is correct then anyone visually impaired has software available to help remedy this 'sword fight'. :) - Peace, .i c e.

In this case (the "hiding from the bots" scenario), I don't like images that convey information that can only be understood by human eyes.

The fatal flaw in that line of thinking is that not all humans have eyes that function well, and some don't function at all. This is exactly why standards compliant designers build sites that allow the user's browser-of-choice to resize the text at will, or even read the site to them if they can't see at all.

Of course, you could accommodate the screen readers by including alt text for the image with the actual address, but that would defeat the initial goal of not having a text version of your address on the page.

If you're really paranoid about spam (which I'm not, as I've said before) you could use a creative text description of your email address that would be difficult for bots to decipher but easy for *any* humans to understand.

I think it is going to take the two of us.

I could see the reasons for all other buttons, they just don't serve a purposep; but you know that an email button is not just for the bling, it actually serves a great purpose.

It gives a site admin the option to display an email address for all "human" traffic without giving up your email to all the bots around the web.

Do you just not like images? If so what does it matter when you use lynx?

i'll let you fix this dan:

Yep, and it doesn't get much lamer than email buttons.