- From: <nir.dagan@econ.upf.es>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 00:19:16 +0100
- TO: g.gay@utoronto.ca
- CC: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
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 >
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