As far as I know, image maps are not deprecated... just often abused so you should really consider your options. I agree with your little analogy as well. I'd evaluate exactly what the problem is and then pick a solution.
For example, if all the shapes in the potential map are square, it'd be easy to separate into individual images. If they would need 800 points in a polygon, maybe a color-picker based JS script could be employed (you could probably write one of these in <100 pixels). If you don't need to be that specific, just place anchor tags over a plain image (or use them as background images in the anchor), etc. And there are definitely ways to make image maps more accessible. I'd say if you came across something that you thought about using an image map, just ask yourself what other solutions you can use and evaluate if any of those may be a better fit. - Christian On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Mathew Robertson < mathew.blair.robert...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> US map example: http://davidlynch.org/js/maphilight/docs/demo_usa.html >> >> > That isn't really a good example of accessibility + images-maps, as it > doesn't have any... maybe it could be updated to use the tabindex attribute. > > cheers, > Mathew Robertson > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
