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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Wed, Feb 27 2013 10:01PM
Subject: Accessible maps
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Does anyone have information on, experience with, or ideas about accessible
maps? (I know, I'm pushing the envelope again!)
I have government agencies needing solutions and this appears to be one area
of accessibility that hasn't been sufficiently addressed.
Types of maps include:
Transportation, mass transit, and highway maps.
Land maps that would be produced by land-oriented agencies, such as
environmental departments, water departments, forest management agencies,
and natural resources management.
Topographic and geological maps.
Nautical charts, which are a type of map.
Geographic, political, and voting maps.
Thanks in advance,
-Bevi Chagnon
PubCom.com - Trainers, Consultants, Designers, and Developers.
Print, Web, Acrobat, XML, eBooks, and U.S. Federal Section 508
Accessibility.
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From: Karen Mardahl
Date: Wed, Feb 27 2013 11:03PM
Subject: Re: Accessible maps
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Hi Bevi
I noticed that Simply Accessible is holding a 90-minute virtual seminar on
accessible maps on March 19th. Details are at
http://store.simplyaccessible.com/virtual-seminar/accessible-maps/
There is no price up yet, but they are reasonable in pricing.
I am not connected with them in any way. I just happen to know about it
from Twitter.
I seem to recall articles by T.V. Raman about accessible Google Maps, but I
cannot find anything on Google just now. I only found a few threads in some
Google Groups. Maybe you will have better luck if you search.
I hope this gets you a bit further in your search.
Regards, Karen Mardahl
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Chagnon | PubCom < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >wrote:
> Does anyone have information on, experience with, or ideas about accessible
> maps? (I know, I'm pushing the envelope again!)
>
> I have government agencies needing solutions and this appears to be one
> area
> of accessibility that hasn't been sufficiently addressed.
>
> Types of maps include:
>
> Transportation, mass transit, and highway maps.
>
> Land maps that would be produced by land-oriented agencies, such as
> environmental departments, water departments, forest management agencies,
> and natural resources management.
>
> Topographic and geological maps.
>
> Nautical charts, which are a type of map.
>
> Geographic, political, and voting maps.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -Bevi Chagnon
>
> PubCom.com - Trainers, Consultants, Designers, and Developers.
>
> Print, Web, Acrobat, XML, eBooks, and U.S. Federal Section 508
> Accessibility.
>
> It's our 32nd year!
>
>
>
> > > >
From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: Sun, Mar 03 2013 1:31PM
Subject: Re: Accessible maps
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Here's an article about Accessible Maps from A List Apart:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssmaps
I also have the comments bookmarked, so it may be worth reading them,
in case they provide additional resources.
And here's another, from Google, about making accessible directions:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/public-transit-made-easy.html
Jennifer
At 09:01 PM 2/27/2013, you wrote:
>Does anyone have information on, experience with, or ideas about accessible
>maps? (I know, I'm pushing the envelope again!)
>
>I have government agencies needing solutions and this appears to be one area
>of accessibility that hasn't been sufficiently addressed.
>
>Types of maps include:
>
>Transportation, mass transit, and highway maps.
>
>Land maps that would be produced by land-oriented agencies, such as
>environmental departments, water departments, forest management agencies,
>and natural resources management.
>
>Topographic and geological maps.
>
>Nautical charts, which are a type of map.
>
>Geographic, political, and voting maps.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>-Bevi Chagnon
>
>PubCom.com - Trainers, Consultants, Designers, and Developers.
>
>Print, Web, Acrobat, XML, eBooks, and U.S. Federal Section 508
>Accessibility.
>
>It's our 32nd year!
>
>
>
>>>
From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Mon, Mar 04 2013 8:46AM
Subject: Re: Accessible maps
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Google map
On 3/3/13, Jennifer Sutton < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Here's an article about Accessible Maps from A List Apart:
>
> http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssmaps
>
> I also have the comments bookmarked, so it may be worth reading them,
> in case they provide additional resources.
>
>
> And here's another, from Google, about making accessible directions:
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/public-transit-made-easy.html
>
> Jennifer
>
> At 09:01 PM 2/27/2013, you wrote:
>>Does anyone have information on, experience with, or ideas about
>> accessible
>>maps? (I know, I'm pushing the envelope again!)
>>
>>I have government agencies needing solutions and this appears to be one
>> area
>>of accessibility that hasn't been sufficiently addressed.
>>
>>Types of maps include:
>>
>>Transportation, mass transit, and highway maps.
>>
>>Land maps that would be produced by land-oriented agencies, such as
>>environmental departments, water departments, forest management agencies,
>>and natural resources management.
>>
>>Topographic and geological maps.
>>
>>Nautical charts, which are a type of map.
>>
>>Geographic, political, and voting maps.
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>-Bevi Chagnon
>>
>>PubCom.com - Trainers, Consultants, Designers, and Developers.
>>
>>Print, Web, Acrobat, XML, eBooks, and U.S. Federal Section 508
>>Accessibility.
>>
>>It's our 32nd year!
>>
>>
>>
>>>>>>>
> > > >
From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Mon, Mar 04 2013 9:49AM
Subject: Re: Accessible maps
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Here is another resource:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/keyboard-accessible-google-maps/
Maps used to display directions:
Google HTML-only maps and Mapquest (Classic) provide driving
directions in text from place A to place B in text as a series of
sequential steps.
It is displayed on screen and available to all besides the map.
Besides the other main accessibility challenge is inability to use the
UI elements on the map to zoom / pan using a keyboard interface.
The newer versions launched since the the Google HTML and Mapquest
Classic versions do not have the text-based directions.
So they have gone from being accessible to not being so.
Sailesh