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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Mar 4, 2013 9:49AM

Here is another resource:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/keyboard-accessible-google-maps/

Maps used to display directions:
Google HTML-only maps and Mapquest (Classic) provide driving
directions in text from place A to place B in text as a series of
sequential steps.
It is displayed on screen and available to all besides the map.
Besides the other main accessibility challenge is inability to use the
UI elements on the map to zoom / pan using a keyboard interface.
The newer versions launched since the the Google HTML and Mapquest
Classic versions do not have the text-based directions.
So they have gone from being accessible to  not being so.
Sailesh