In early November, we were made aware of at least two web forms that began receiving large quantities of spam submissions. We have some safeguards we can recommend for your web forms to avoid the spammers: the anti-spam honeypot and invisible reCAPTCHA. Anti-spam honeypot This is a feature available to all web forms in the […]
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By default, any web form created on the UMaine and UMaine Machias websites have an email notification that will send a copy of each submission to a predefined address. These notifications can be useful for handling incoming requests. In order to make the most of your email notifications, we recommend the following: Decide who should […]
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Due to the security risks associated with collecting and storing user data, website business owners should carefully consider how they use web forms. The University of Maine System Web Technologies Group has published guidance that explains the options available to content editors using WordPress, the content management system used for most public University of Maine System […]
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Do you receive unhelpful spam from your web forms? While there have been tools available that attempt to thwart the automated form submission robots that are responsible for this, such options have introduced barriers to visitors that rely on assistive technology. For this reason we had not allowed for the use of reCAPTCHA (a popular […]
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Explain the form The most important first step for an accessible web form is the content around the form itself. Make sure your instructions are brief, clear, and set the visitor’s expectations properly. Explain what filling out the form is going to accomplish for them. In the example of a contact form, explain up front […]
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