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From: julian.rickards
Date: Dec 17, 2003 8:03AM

It appears that this discussion went on for quite a bit after I had left
work and I am going through the messages - this one may have been answered
already.

Regarding your question, I just checked both check points 1.1 and 1.5 and
1.5 specifically refers to client side but 1.1 does not although it refers
to image map regions. Of the two check points, I would have suspected that
1.5 (Until user agents render text equivalents for client-side image map
links, provide redundant text links for each active region of a client-side
image map.) would have been more geared to server side but in fact it is
more clearly refering to client side than 1.1.

However, 1.5 is a priority 3 and may simply be there to ask developers to
accomodate older ATs that don't support client-side image maps. I haven't
used Lynx but if Opera's text-only mode is representative of Lynx, then
image maps are not visible to Lynx users at all other than perhaps the alt
text of the image as a whole.

Jules

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Julian Rickards
Digital Publications Distribution Coordinator
Publications Services Section
Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines
Phone: (705) 670-5608
Fax: (705) 670-5690


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