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

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From: Mary Martinson
Date: Dec 16, 2003 3:05PM

Another reason to avoid link text such as "click here" is that some screen
reader users bring up a list of links and navigate from the list. So link
text has to make sense out of context. "Click here" or "more information"
doesn't mean anything without the rest of the sentence.

There is also a difference between server-side and client-side image maps.
It is my understanding that screen readers don't pick up information that's
served up by the server. So a server-side image map would have to have
redundant text links, but a client-side image map could use alt text. Could
be mistaken on this, but that's my understanding.
Mary