- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 10:46:03 +1000 (AEST)
- To: WAI Working Group <w3c-wai-wg@w3.org>
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Al Gilman wrote: > > The idea of a text page which provides links covering "everywhere > you can go from the Image Map" is a good idea to me, too. I > tried to say every image map should have one of these, and > furthermore it should always be what you get as the response to > selecting the coordinates (0,0) or any other coordinates outside > the sensitive regions. I think the use of server-side image maps should be strongly discouraged in favour of client-side maps, which have been officially available since the release of HTML 3.2. The above solution is appropriate to server-side image maps and may perhaps be offered in guidelines as an alternative, but I think the most important message which should be communicated to authors is that for the benefit of accessibility, they need to make use of client-side image maps with proper ALT attributes. In fact, if I remember rightly, the ALT attribute is required in the elements that designate the regions of a client-side image map.
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