Darren... I find your comment, "I would most certainly not allow the use of an image map", interesting.
What would you do, as is Jason's situation, if your "client demands it"? You can always turn down the work, but would you simply because a client wants to do something that you don't like? Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 7:39 AM > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: Re: [WSG] Question about accessibility > > Hi Jason, > > I would most certainly not allow the use of an image map. They are > only useful for defining polygon or circular areas on maps (or > similar) as links. They are not good for a sites primary navigation. > > For navigation that is consisting of an image I would create an > unordered list: > > <ul id="nav"> > <li class="img1">link1</li> > <li class="img2">link1</li> > <li class="img3">link1</li> > </ul> > > Set the main img background on ul#nav to go behind all the links then > set the individual link graphics on each list item anchor - li.img? a > > Make the anchors display:block and you can then define height and > width of the link. > > Then when images are turned off you are still left with a fully > accessible menu. > > Darren Lovelock > Munkyonline.co.uk > > Quoting Jason Pruim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Good Morning everyone! > > > > I have a client that wants me to write his navigation mostly as a > > picture and then use image maps to get to the actual links. > > > > I am wondering, how would I go about convincing my client that this > > isn't the best way to do it? I personally think that some nice text > > links, styled properly with CSS would look just as good if not better > > then image maps. > > > > Oh, and to put it into context, it's a picture rating site so I don't > > know that Blind users are going to be too much of a concern for him > > since they can't see what the main part of the site is for. > > > > Any info I could get about this would be wonderful! > > > > Thanks everyone! > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
