Redundant alt text??

You've got a point.

I think that when redundant links are available one can use alt="" for all
AREA in the map, and possibly "see links below" for the IMG.

If there are no redundant links, alt="" for the IMG and meaningful alt 
for AREAs.

Redundant links are useful for backward compatibility with HTML2.0
that does not support client side image maps.

I think both options are OK. I wouldn't make HTML2.0 compatibility a requirement
though.

Regards,
Nir Dagan.


>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
>

Received on Monday, 9 November 1998 18:19:47 UTC