I work in a financial organisation and our website is heavily regulated. We have a gateway page that has links to various sections within the site. Each link is 'protected' by a separate cookie. What happens is, the user clicks the link and is presented with a regulatory page that contains a link that they must click to progress to the page they require. When they click the link a cookie is written. The next time they click the original link they go straight to the requested page without seeing the regulations page. They see the regulations page again after 30 days when the cookie expires.

The way I do this at the moment is using JavaScript. Is there way I can do the same without using JavaScript as I need to make the website fully accessible to everyone using screen readers, text browsers etc?

Many thanks in advance!

Hello,

The problem with cookies is that they are computer specific and not visitor specific.

For example, if multiple people use the same computer such as in a college library or internet cafe, then the page(s) you are trying to protect become useless.

A better aproach may be to get a script that has member logins so now you will be tracking visitors and not just the computer they are using.

Hope this helps,

Dale.

I don't think he's trying to protect the content, so much as make sure people see the regulations regularly. You can set cookies using most serverside languages such as PHP, ASP, PERL or whatever. Since they are server side there are no compatibility problems.