[Bug 13814] Permit @alt on <area> even when there is no @href attribute

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13814

Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
                 CC|                            |xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-i
                   |                            |ua.no
         Resolution|WONTFIX                     |---

--- Comment #2 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> ---
(In reply to Ian 'Hixie' Hickson from comment #1)

> Status: Rejected
> Change Description: no spec change
> Rationale: You'd never be able to see the text (areas that can't be
> activated don't get exposed), so this is unnecessary.

This rationale does not count in the use case that the image map is a
navigation menu. In that case, there will be a symbol or text inside the image
map image, which e.g. the sighted user will see, whereas e.g. the AT user will
not see it but could get the text from the area element that does not create a
hyperlink.

In navigation menus, it is freequently the case that the link is "dead" if it
leads to the current page.

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Received on Saturday, 11 January 2014 22:19:39 UTC