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Hi Albrecht,
As I said - there was no markup at all in the HTML (i.e., no
<a ...> entity) so I'm not surprised by the lack of link
there.
If I wasn't in a rush when I did click the link, I should easily
have noticed the extra trailing dot, but I had other reasons to
suspect the sender of a bit of technical illiteracy. When I did
contact them, I don't think the lack of any plain text version
registered in her brain, but the inclusion of an image of a flyer
(image, not pdf) with no accompanying text, did get her attention
in terms of accessibility. (US Congressman's office, so I would
hope they care about that.)
Jack
On 07/03/2018 01:52 PM, Albrecht Dreß
wrote:
Hi
Jack:
Am 03.07.18 19:25 schrieb(en) Jack via balsa-list:
I recently received an email with the text
Thank you for contacting the office of Congressman Joe Courtney.
Due to large amounts of spam and fraudulent emails this account
is not monitored. To ensure messages receive the Congressman's
attention we ask that you share your thoughts through his
website at https://courtney.house.gov/contact/email. Thank you.
and Balsa nicely turned the URL into a link. Unfortunately, it
included the ending period in the URL, which led to a 404 not
found error, which I originally blamed on the sender, before
realizing that it couldn't be their fault, since there is no
markup in the plain text.
I must admit that I also stumbled into this issue from time to
time, but never cared. I'll look into that, should be easy to
fix.
Interestingly, there was also no markup of
the link in the HTML version, so that version did not show a
link, but I'll blame that on whichever library I am currently
using for Balsa to display the HTML.
I guess the HTML renderer will show a clickable link if and only
if it is a “<a href="">…</a>” HTML element. Did you
check that in the html source?
Cheers,
Albrecht.
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