- From: by way of Kelly Ford <poehlman@clark.net>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 17:32:55 -0800
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
this is the problem as I see it. When I first raised the question, I had no doubt that now and increasingly in the future, it could be accessed but my main concern is not whether there should be a text only page due to screen readers or third party technology. My main reason for posing the question was to decide if it might be better for additional reasons. even if the day comes when we all can use our third party software and hardware to read image maps thus taking that reason for a text only site away, there are still reasons today that make it almost mandatory that it is eliminated. keep the image map. Just don't make a text only page that makes it difficult then for people with disabilities that use older browsers to access the page and not be able to support image maps. Put the links on the page. even put graphics in them. Just code them inside and outside the image maps so that they can be accessed no matter which technology is used. -- Hands-On Technolog(eye)s ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/poehlman http://poehlman.clark.net mailto:poehlman@clark.net voice 301-949-7599 end sig.
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