[gui-talk] spam messages that are too smart for Jaws?

[Mike Freeman]

The link may not be a real link, i.e., it may need to be clicked with a 
mouse in that it is detected by javascript or the like -- or -- the email 
may not be true HTML.

Parenthetically, I don't really understand why you'd even bother forwarding 
the spam; AOL probably has already received many thousands of copies.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Kenlawrence124 at aol.com>
To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 6:37 AM
Subject: [gui-talk] spam messages that are too smart for Jaws?


> Hi List members, Ken here with a strange question that I posed to the Jaws
> users list but I don't think I posted it here.  Over the last few weeks
> I've gotten a spam messages advertising watches.  They all come from an 
> AOL
> email address.  What is strange is that when I try to tab forward to the
> forward button to send it to AOL terms of service, Jaws won't tab forward. 
> I
> can go backwards to the mail header but not forward to the place to delete
> or  forward and or even Reply.  Not that I'd ever reply to this jerk Huh?
> My question is how is the message encoded so that jaws can't move forward
> using  the Tab key?  Is this person maybe even smart enough to encode a 
> message
> so  that blind jaws users would maybe be foolish enough to click the link
> thinking  it is the only thing to do?  Is this idiot maybe that stupid or
> smart  depending on your view?  Or is this just by chance that jaws finds 
> this
> particular HTML encoding baffling?
>
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