Re: advice on alt text for image maps

On 13/01/2014 10:56, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> Here the problem might be that an advent calendar probably has cognitive
> accessibility issues. I know what an advent calendar is when I see one,
> but it's not that obvious to all people. This is relevant because such
> issues may make it necessary to explain something about it, and then
> there is the "risk" that again, alt="" would be most adequate.
>
> And even to a person who recognizes such calendars, it is not clear
> whether the calendar is for entertainment only (you click on a day, you
> see some picture revealed) or whether there is some action involved,

Both of these issues seem orthogonal to the original problem here of 
whether or not an alt is generally useful or not on the overall image 
(but I have to admit I've now lost track of what it was we originally 
discussed here, so apologies if I'm misinterpreting the discussion).

There will always be situations where a developer may opt to provide 
alternative explanation in preceding text rather than the image itself 
(as is also the case for regular images). And there is always 
uncertainty (even with humble regular links in a page) about whether 
clicking something takes you to a new page or just "shows" you something 
or does some other action on the same page, so not exclusively related 
to this scenario?

P
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