- From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 10:35:49 -0500
- To: <webmaster@dors.sailorsite.net>, "David Poehlman" <poehlman@clark.net>
- Cc: "Web Accessibility Initiative" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, <kathleen.anderson@po.state.ct.us>
Regarding whether browsers and screenreaders can read hotspots, anyone who wants to check their browser and screenreader can go to a test page at http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday/web_access/image_map.html There's ALT text for the image as a whole and for each hotspot. Len At 08:29 AM 1/11/00 -0500, Bruce Bailey wrote: >David Poehlman wrote: > > can someone tell me if this should have been necessary? > > Thanks, url below. > > http://ci.hartford.ct.us/ > >In a word, no -- but then you knew that! >Anyone on the list in Connecticut want to take the Kynn challenge and create >an accessible version of this home page for them? >It looks like the authors constrained themselves to using FrontPage which, >from my experimentation with it, makes writing valid html difficult. > >Kathleen Anderson wrote: > > I'm not sure what you mean by 'necessary', but, until user agents > > support alt tags for the hotspots in client-side image maps, or until > > the City eliminates the image map altogether, I believe he did the > > reasonable thing. > >At this point, don't user agents support alt tags for hotspots in >client-side image maps quite well? I am not sure about Netscape, but hasn't >I.E. 4.01 (and latter, w/ JFW) supported client-side image maps (that had >alt text of course) for like over a year now? Has it not been a few years >since Lynx had this feature? > >I offer this question up to the group: >Given a broken page to start with, which is more "reasonable", (1) re-coding >to the page (keeping the original appearance) to use valid and accessible >html, or (2) creating a text-only version of the page? >I have my prejudices, but I would like to hear some other opinions! > >-- Bruce Bailey ------- Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D. Institute on Disabilities/UAP, and Department of Electrical Engineering Temple University 423 Ritter Annex, Philadelphia, PA 19122 kasday@acm.org http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday (215) 204-2247 (voice) (800) 750-7428 (TTY)
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