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Re: What assistive technology does (and doesn't do)

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From: James Gagnier
Date: Dec 16, 2003 2:44PM

That's exactly it. Client side image maps can be read by screen reading
technologies but server side image maps can't. Case in point,
www.mapquest.com is inaccessible to screenreaders.

James

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Harshbarger" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 4:08 PM
Subject: RE: What assistive technology does (and doesn't do)


Jules,

Could the possible conflict be in the differences between server-side and
client-side image maps?

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