Email Obfuscation

[Lee Peterson]

The email obfuscation functionality doesn’t work as expected since an anchor link is never generated. The email address is displayed in plain text and is not linkable.

This thread suggests a fix which does not work since the obfuscation functionality was seemingly “fixed” a while ago. https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/email-obfuscation-in-single-event-view-with-email-address-encoder/

[Cliff]

Hi, Leonard. Thanks for your detailed question.

Could you please tell me where exactly you’re referring to — a link(s) might help?

Thanks.

[Lee Peterson]

Here’s an example link with email echoing only the value and not an anchor: https://www.discoverjacksonnc.com/event/sylva-christmas-parade/

[Cliff]

Gotcha.

If you look at that link’s page source, you’ll see it is obfuscated:

• Page source: https://cl.ly/2A2I1C3Z0y3h
• vs Browser Display / Inspector: https://cl.ly/3r2D1a2T0W0n

It’s just that the browser knows how to read and display the obfuscation in a human-readable way.

Regarding the email address not being linked, please reference https://tribe.uservoice.com/forums/195723-feature-ideas/suggestions/6095045-make-the-organizer-s-email-address-a-clickable-mai

[Lee Peterson]

The suggested link resolved the email link issue.

However, the Organizer’s website address is missing the title tag. Adding a new anchor link and creating a title doesn’t fix it. How do we add an anchor link to get the contact information compliant?

[Cliff]

Lee, are you asking how this link can be something like this instead?

If not, please explain what you mean by “compliant”.

[Lee Peterson]

Sorry, I should have been more descriptive.

Yes, being able to provide different text inside the anchor would be good. But I also meant roles, aria, title, etc. Anything to help ADA/508 compliance.

[Cliff]

Lee, I’m not sure if you already fixed the issue yourself or if it always was how it is now, but I had an accessibility developer take a look and the report back was that what you have at this time is good to go for WCAG (passing both aXe and WAVE testing).

Here’s a screenshot they took:

Please let me know if you have any follow-up questions on this topic.

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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