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Good Morning everyone!
I have a client that wants me to write his navigation mostly as a
picture and then use image maps to get to the actual links.
I am wondering, how would I go about convincing my client that this
isn't the best way to do it? I personally think that some nice text
lin
Hi Jason,
Why don't you turn the convincing angle up-side-down? Instead of pulling the
'accessibility' pitch focus on the performance and customizability of having
a CSS-driven navigation (accessibility will follow naturally).
Perhaps you could prepare two versions of a similar looking navigation
Very good advice Rob.
Rob Enslin wrote:
Hi Jason,
Why don't you turn the convincing angle up-side-down? Instead of pulling
the 'accessibility' pitch focus on the performance and customizability
of having a CSS-driven navigation (accessibility will follow naturally).
Perhaps you could prepar
Hi Jason,
I would most certainly not allow the use of an image map. They are
only useful for defining polygon or circular areas on maps (or
similar) as links. They are not good for a sites primary navigation.
For navigation that is consisting of an image I would create an
unordered list:
Agreed Jason, totally blind users may be small in number but turning away
those with partial sight could hurt your clients bottom line; the trick is
to invite in the "missing" 11% without making the site so boring that
"normal" users wander off elsewhere.
Further it may help to widen the access
Darren...
I find your comment, "I would most certainly not allow the use of
an image map", interesting.
What would you do, as is Jason's situation, if your "client demands it"?
You can always turn down the work, but would you simply because a client
wants to do something that you don't like?
Ri
Hi Jason,
I have a client that wants me to write his navigation mostly as a picture
and then use
image maps to get to the actual links.
That's not necessarily an inaccessible method, not completely anyway. Take
my MapPop [1] for example. It's a list and CSS driven. works with keyboard.
Down
Hi Rick,
If any client were to tell me how to code their website I would
probably tell them to go elsewhere. The client is more than likely
going to be a pain throughout the project and then also when making
payment.
Obviously this is within reason - design aspects - of course they
deci
You're right about a client like that being a pain in the rear.
I had a client who wanted customers to contact them via email,
but didn't want to use a contact form and didn't want them to just
use a link to email from the website. He was dead-set against forms
even though they were the answer.
Honestly, I think he just wants a very specific look... He also thinks
it looks "neater then using plain txt"
I'll talk to him about it and let him know about the possible down
falls with the whole thing... After I read up on image maps that is :)
I'm assuming they rely on some sort of clie
People have already said this, but an unordered list, a little css and
some sprites allow for very graphically rich navigation that is usable
in almost all circumstances. I have been putting image replaced
navigation on all my sites for some time. You could even use a big
photograph.
Postin
At 6:37 AM -0400 8/27/08, Jason Pruim wrote:
Good Morning everyone!
I have a client that wants me to write his navigation mostly as a
picture and then use image maps to get to the actual links.
I am wondering, how would I go about convincing my client that this
isn't the best way to do it?
It's not too difficult to use CSS to turn a list of links into an "image
map". Just give the ul the image as a background and position relative.
You can then define the size and absolute position of each list item and
position the text off screen.
This still isn't as accessible as a simple list, b
I dislike image maps as there are so many better ways to do
navigtation. However, client side image maps are 508 compliant and
accessible if coded correctly. Server side image maps are not.
see this article in http://www.webaim.org/techniques/images/alt_text.php#maps
Nancy
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:37:06 -0400, Jason Pruim wrote:
> Good Morning everyone!
>
> I have a client that wants me to write his navigation mostly as a picture and
> then use
> image maps to get to the actual links.
>
> I am wondering, how would I go about convincing my client that this isn't the
>
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:37:06 -0400, Jason Pruim wrote:
> Good Morning everyone!
>
> I have a client that wants me to write his navigation mostly as a picture and
> then use
> image maps to get to the actual links.
>
> I am wondering, how would I go about convincing my client that this isn't the
>
Hi
WebAIM have articles about Accessibility.
http://www.webaim.org/intro
see
http://www.webaim.org/articles/vis_vs_cog/
and example : http://www.peepo.com/
Good luck
Fernando
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Russ
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Even if the text replacement should not look as satisfying as using a
whole big image with image maps on it, you can still split up that image
into the navigation part and use image replacement techniques where the
Text is still preserved. Since most of those techniques hide the Text
and put the i
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