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Comment by IvarTJ | Hacker News Reader

A point made in the comments of the post is that blind users using screenreaders may notice and interact with the honeypot fields.

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For this reason, I always add some brief text explaining that the field is there to detect spam and must be left blank.

I'm sure blind readers would prefer this approach to a CAPTCHA.

This is easily solved by text (again hidden moved off-screen for the normal user with CSS enabled).

"Thank you for filling out our form. Press <hotkey> to submit the form or <hotkey> to review."

"If you are not a real person, input your state now. Otherwise press <hotkey> to skip State : <input field>

That kind of text will still confuse the majority of Web users. It's the kind of thing my mom or wife would show to me and say, "So am I supposed to put my state in? Why do they have it there if I'm not supposed to fill it in?"

roel_v makes a valid point - the majority of web users will not see this text. The whole point is that it's hidden and will only be 'seen' by people using screen readers. The text could easily be changed to "To reduce spam we have included this extra field. If you are a human, please leave it blank."

Are your mom and your wife blind?

It was a valid question - the GP was talking about blind users, and then some guy who didn't even read the discussion properly comes waltzing in with a non sequitur about his mom.

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