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Email Links and Javascript Errors
This site deals with a large number of email addresses — students, faculty, staff, and who knows what else. Spammers will run spiders — the same kind of thing that Google uses to index web pages — to find email addresses on the web and send all sorts of strange and inappropriate things to them. To avoid handing this fate to everyone whose email address appears on the site, we use a bit of Javascript to break up email addresses in the code. This makes links work just like regular old email links when a person visits the page, but spiders don't see the full email address.
While this method is reputedly accessible to screen readers, it does have the drawback that if you disable Javascript, you won't see the email link and you get sent here instead. If you've been sent here, you have a browser that doesn't run Javascript, or you have Javascript disabled. The easiest solution is to enable Javascript. (We won't do anything nasty to you, we promise!)
- In Opera, you can set preferences for this specific site without changing your Javascript settings
for other web sites. Right click in the main window and select
Edit Site Preferences → Scripting (Tab) → and check Enable Javascript. - In Firefox, click on Tools → Options → Content (tab) → and check Enable Javascript.
- In Internet Explorer, click on Tools → Internet Options → Security (tab) → Custom Level → and scroll down to Active Scripting (it's near the bottom) and select Enable.