At 6:37 AM -0400 8/27/08, Jason Pruim wrote:
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.
Just to clarify, strictly speaking in terms of accessibility, if
redundant text links are provided elsewhere on the page, image maps
are not a hindrance to blind users because they have an alternate
method of navigating.
But of course the many excellent suggestions regarding a more
efficient way of coding the site are definitely the way to go.
Besides, images maps are a royal pain to maintain.
-Tim
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