I would just ignore the 'error' That warning it pretty much to encourge webmasters to put descriptive text for images, so that non-visual readers (and that includes search engine crawlers) can get a grasp of what your page is about withoug seeing the image. A non-visual reader is never going to make sense of a Google Maps API interactive map.
And there is no sense for Google to just put a alt tag anyway, some browsers (eg IE) will end up showing it as a tooltip - which will be meaningless and distracting. A properly designed page for accessibility would just have a content block saying something like 'interactive map here' - and then use 'progressive enhancement' techniques to convert the block to a interactive Map, but only for user-agents designed for visual interaction. (could even use a static map as a 'intermediate' stage) Few pages using an interactive Google Map are designed with accessibility in mind. On 3 December 2010 22:24, Andrew <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi I have a web page pretty much the exact same as this one: > http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/arcgisserver/apis/javascript/gmaps/samples/querytask/query_custominfowindow.html > > When I run the FAE DHTML validator in Firefox on this webpage, Under > "Text Equivalents" it tells me: > Each img element must have an alt attribute. > Fail: 37 img elements do not have an alt attribute. > > This is really the only error i have left to fix on my own web page. > > I am guessing it is referring to the google maps tile png files since > there are no other images on the web page. Is there any way to fix > this? Thank you very much. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Maps API V2" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API V2" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en.
