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Re: b9fx

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Don JudgeMay 22, 2015

Aaaah - the joys of the free-for-all Internet eh?

Then people wanted to make money out of it and the accountants got involved, what a shame...

From: "Mark sirnylon@... [just-a-minute]" <just-a-minute@...>
To: "just-a-minute@..." <just-a-minute@...>
Sent: Friday, 22 May 2015, 2:39
Subject: Re: [just-a-minute] b9fx

Hi, jamfans.

The main reason I used an image with embedded text was to prevent search engines scraping the text and indexing it.

The page also lacks alt tags and relevant page description for the same reason.

The domain I put it on was also intended to harbour no connection to our programme's name.

The fact that the login info does not refer to the actual location of the jar is not accidental either.

It's also why the sig at the bottom of my emails is also composed of an image rather than text.

If I put the credential info on the web in plain text or with alt tags, it would be effectively shining a spotlight onto it, and make it turn up in web searches.

I have no wish to make anyone's life more difficult - including my own. So, as I said: does anyone have a better idea - one that I don't have to pay for or spend hours maintaining? What about we form a society and each contribute a little to fund an account on a file storage site?

I'm already getting slightly annoyed emails from my web host suggesting that the 15GB consumed by the jar is not in line with their 'fair use' policy, and they have removed my domains from their backup schedule.

Regards

Mark

On 21 May 2015 at 23:48, 'Paul' groups@... [just-a-minute] <just-a-minute@...> wrote:

Tony,

I don't and have never used a screen reader programme, so please forgive this question if it is ignorant in any way. I do write a blog and include images in almost every post I upload and include alt tags and descriptive text in the meta tags for the images. Would this kind of info help with this kind of problem for your screen reader programme?

Again apologies for "teaching granny to suck eggs" type question

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: just-a-minute@... [mailto:just-a-minute@...]
Sent: 21 May 2015 08:27
To: just-a-minute@...
Subject: Re: [just-a-minute] b9fx

Hello,

I'm not sure what you mean by simplifying the process, but if you mean having someone look at a picture, I am rather disappointed. I am totally blind and that is rather impossible for some of us such as myself. I apologise if I am mistaken here, but based on another post commenting about saving the picture, I'm assuming that's the case. I would ask you to reconsider this and find a better solution. I am really tired of the prevailing attitude nowadays that all people can see, therefore anyone can see the picture, therefore make them look at a picture to get access. The really stupid thing is that any good OCR program can defeat this anyway. I know because I've had to use such software on a number of sites with the same stupid, non-inclusive thinking.

On 5/20/2015 6:25 AM, Mark sirnylon@... [just-a-minute] wrote:
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> Hi all. The myBB software running b9fx.com <http://b9fx.com> has had a
> fatal brain fart and has generated 400 error messages (so far) today.
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> I've decided to dramatically simplify the dissemination of Jam Jar
> login credentials on the site. I hope it will still serve the
> community without impeding the discreet spreading of the JAM.
>
> Cheers
> Mark
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> Mark
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Have a good day,
Tony Baechler
mailto:tony.baechler@...

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Mark

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