- From: Alan J. Flavell <flavell@a5.ph.gla.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 00:19:06 +0100 (BST)
- To: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- cc: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org, WAI Guidelines List <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Ian Jacobs wrote: > Whether they generate it or whether they should are, as usual, > distinct questions. From the HTML 4.01 specification, section 13.6.2 > > User agents that do not offer the user a means to select > specific coordinates (e.g., non-graphical user agents that rely on > keyboard input, speech-based user agents, etc.) should send the > coordinates "0,0" to the server when the link is activated. This also seems to have been the long-standing situation in practice, as far as I could tell (unlike some other specialised areas where the specs get widely disregarded!) My notes on this topic aren't up-to-the-minute, but might still be useful, http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/alt/imgmap.html There's at least one server-side imagemap evaluator that can use the server-side imagemap for constructing a text menu when it seems that it's being called from a text-mode browser. Of course with the widespread deployment of client-side imagemaps, dealing effectively with server-side ones has seemed less urgent. There's a somewhat different scenario with INPUT TYPE=IMAGE (which can also be considered to be a kind of server-side imagemap). I have some earlier notes on that in the same area, http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/alt/type-image.html Hope this is useful (I'm not a specialist in these matters, just an interested dabbler.) best regards
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