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Image map accessibility

11th July 2002

Mark Pilgrim continues to educate with day 24 of his series. Client side image maps need not pose a barrier to accessibility thanks to the helpful way in which alternative browsers use the alt attribute. They still aren’t much use for people using a normal (non-lynx) browser with images turned off though, and server side image maps are a big no.

This is Image map accessibility by Simon Willison, posted on 11th July 2002.

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