Re: [WSG] Image mapping standards question

2009-06-04 Thread Mohsen Keshawarz
On 6/3/09, Tim Savage wrote: > > I've been playing around with this idea recently. Image maps are quite > flexible, not only can you title attributes etc but since they are part of > the DOM you can attach javascript events to them. For a recent client which > an online fashion store they had imag

Re: [WSG] Image mapping standards question

2009-06-02 Thread Megan Casey
Perhaps you are looking for something like this: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssmaps/ Rather than an image map, it uses a definition list with the image as a background and the text positioned off-screen, so the information is still available for screenreaders. On 6/3/09, Paul Novitski wr

Re: [WSG] Image mapping standards question

2009-06-02 Thread Paul Novitski
At 6/1/2009 07:34 AM, Brett Patterson wrote: It has recently come to my attention the struggles of an end-user when viewing images for any user. I have seen sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and other sites where pictures are hosted use roll-overs for recognizing certain parts of an image. I rea

Re: [WSG] Image mapping standards question

2009-06-02 Thread David Hucklesby
Brett Patterson wrote: I meant that rather than using image mapping for hyperlinks, you could use it to (sort of) point out a particular part of an image, as if you wanted to show someone who can see which person in a picture is you if they hover their mouse over that image map. And you can use i

Re: [WSG] Image mapping standards question

2009-06-02 Thread Brett Patterson
I meant that rather than using image mapping for hyperlinks, you could use it to (sort of) point out a particular part of an image, as if you wanted to show someone who can see which person in a picture is you if they hover their mouse over that image map. And you can use it for someone who is blin

RE: [WSG] Image mapping standards question

2009-06-02 Thread michael.brockington
Judging by the lack of responses, I am probably not the only one who didn't understand your question. Particularly, you seem to be using the term 'image mapping' to mean something other than using an image-map element, but I'm not aware of a standard technique for this. Regards, Mike ___