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From: Steve Green
Date: Oct 10, 2008 6:10PM

Can you explain your reasoning Jim? We find that image maps often cause
problems during user testing for the reasons I mentioned. If good 'alt'
attributes are provided, it is not unusual for image maps to be more
accessible to screen reader users than they are to sighted users.

Sighted people who use keyboard navigation often have difficulty seeing
which area has focus and identifying what that area does. 'alt' attributes
don't help these users at all.

If images are turned off in all current graphical user agents, the 'alt'
attribute for the base image is displayed but the 'alt' attributes for the
areas are not. That makes the image map entirely unusable other than by
trial and error.

Steve