Ken Dreyer wrote:
(another user's perspective)
At my work (US. Geological Survey) we try to discourage webmasters
from using server-side imagemaps, since they are not Section 508
compliant. We've had to keep the module to support some legacy sites,
but if 2.4 drops it, we can probably migrate any remaining server-side
maps.
Hmmm. When I worked alongside some of your folks (joint project -
I was at ESRIN) we used server-side imagemaps to let users select
points on a (geographical) map. Any user without the map could
enter lat/long manually instead, and any clientside solution
(like scripting, or embedded java/flash) would raise more
serious accessibility problems (you'd want the serverside map
as a fallback for accessibility)!
OTOH, that used CERN HTTPD with CGI, not mod_imagemap.
Don't you have that kind of application any more?
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Nick Kew
