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Re: Accessible Maps - Best Practices

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From: _mallory
Date: May 4, 2016 1:06AM

Yeah, another large part of map accessibility is working with keyboard
and keyboard-imitating AT, for example.

_mallory

On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 11:41:36PM +0200, Olaf Drümmer wrote:
> > On 03.05.2016, at 16:30, Brian Lovely < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >
> > That seems like a real challenge. It may be that, rather than attempt to make a map accessible, communicate the information that the map is supposed to convey in the context of the page. For instance, if it is a map of a city showing surrounding towns, you could list the names of the towns and their distance from the city.
>
> isn't this advice specific to accommodation of vision impairments?
>
> Olaf
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> > > >