- From: Greg Gay <g.gay@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 14:41:50 -0800
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
I'm interested to know what the purpose of including alternative text links in conjunction with alt text for map areas is. When using a screen reader, such redundancy results in listening to the links twice. The same aplies for linked images.Would it not be preferable to eliminate map area alt text for a single map alt text pointing the user to a set of text links below. For example, alt="This is a navigation map: see text links below". And, eliminate alt text for linked images in favour of text links below. Listening to alt text and then alternative text links causes confusion. Should it not be one or the other? Preferable text links "http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wai-gl-techniques-19980918.html Technique A.1.3.2 In addition to providing alt-text, provide redundant textual links. If the A element is used instead of AREA, the author may describe the active regions and provide redundant links at the same time:" Greg Gay Adaptive Technology Resource Centre University of Toronto
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