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 at 12:32 PM, Tim Offenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? I personally think that some nice text links, styled >> properly with CSS would look just as good if not better then image maps. >> >> Oh, and to put it into context, it's a picture rating site so I don't >> know that Blind users are going to be too much of a concern for him since >> they can't see what the main part of the site is for. >> > > Just to clarify, strictly speaking in terms of accessibility, if redundant > text links are provided elsewhere on the page, image maps are not a > hindrance to blind users because they have an alternate method of > navigating. > > But of course the many excellent suggestions regarding a more efficient way > of coding the site are definitely the way to go. Besides, images maps are a > royal pain to maintain. > > -Tim > -- > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > Tim Offenstein *** Campus Accessibility Liaison *** (217) 244-2700 > CITES Departmental Services *** www.uiuc.edu/goto/offenstein > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
