- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charlesn@sunrise.srl.rmit.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 11:06:20 +1000 (EST)
- To: Shurel Reynolds-Hartman <shurel@mind-work.com>
- cc: WAI <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Ummm, there is a MAJOR problem with this example: It is based on
non-standard server technology. Although it MAY be accessible, it only
works with specific software/hardware cominations.
However I agree in principle. The users who are disadvantaged by
imagemaps are visual users with newish browsers (which don't give very
good access to the various ALT text) and those using a screen-reader with
such browsers, which I believe is even worse.
Your example can be rewritten in proper HTML, and there is just such an
example in the HTML 4.0 recommendation at
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/objects.html#edef-MAP
<P><OBJECT data="navbar1.gif" type="image/gif" usemap="#map1">
<P>This is a navigation bar.
</OBJECT>
<MAP name="map1">
<AREA href="guide.html"
alt="Access Guide"
shape="rect"
coords="0,0,118,28">
<AREA href="search.html"
alt="Search"
shape="rect"
coords="184,0,276,28">
<AREA href="shortcut.html"
alt="Go"
shape="circle"
coords="184,200,60">
<AREA href="top10.html"
alt="Top Ten"
shape="poly"
coords="276,0,373,28,50,50,276,0">
</MAP>
Charles McCathieNevile
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Shurel Reynolds-Hartman wrote:
> I disagree, in fact, it is possiblt to include 'Alt' tags for each 'Area'
> tag. Not only the that, imagemaps were and are intended for low bandwidth.
> The bear fact of slicing up images into little pieces to fit in cells
> can't be less work than the map production itself
>
> This is just one example:
> <!--webbot bot="ImageMap" polygon="(29,14) (100,16) (88,46) (31,36)
> http://foo"
> src="images/layout3.jpg" width="319" height="215" alt=" Foobar"
> alt="layout3.jpg (3607 bytes)" border="0" -->
>
>
>
> Shurel
>
>
>
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