- From: Nir Dagan <nir.dagan@econ.upf.es>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 00:52:25 GMT
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Image maps - just say no. To make long stroy short, the problems with image maps are mostly usability problems in graphical media. Shurel: When in 'Text' mode, visited, unvisited, active and (IE)hover works perfectly well, with the assistance of CSS. So where is the argument. Nir: 1. W3C hover, not IE hover. Also Lynx marks the hovered link with a different color (although it has a completely different pointing device). 2. You don't need CSS for hover, both Lynx and IE4 apply user's default hover colors/styles without any stylesheet of the author. 3. The argument is that most (or all?) versions of Netscape and Explorer cannot be configured to 'Text' mode. They present "alt" text is a small size font, even if it is H1. The only graphical browser that I know that can be configured to something close to text mode is Opera. Users of Netscape and Explorer in graphical mode with images either on or off suffer a lot from websites written under the assumption that their readers are stupid people who can't read, or "visual-dependant[sic.]" as someone put it. Also in graphical media with no mouse (e.g. tv ) image maps constitute a very serious usability problem. Regards, Nir Dagan Assistant Professor of Economics Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona (Spain) email: dagan@upf.es Website: http://www.econ.upf.es/%7Edagan/
Received on Thursday, 30 July 1998 11:49:05 UTC