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Re: Accessible map site?

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From: clamato
Date: Feb 10, 2006 4:15PM

As far as I know, the main problem with Ajax is that it refreshes parts of the browser without any notification. On Google maps, more areas become visible only as the user scrolls the map (i.e. more "pieces" of the map are only downloaded upon request). This would certainly pose a problem a navigation problem.

Cheryl

>On our new web site we're goig to have a locations directory and we want
>to link addresses out to one of the map sites (google/yahoo/mapquest,
>etc.) From an accessibility standpoint, is any one of those better than
>the others? Granted, maybe maps aren't used a lot by those with vision
>impairments, but I'm guessing some of the sites (like google) with their
>addiction to Ajax could certainly cause issues with physically
>navigating the page.
>
>-Darrel