That is unnecessary - <area>'s support alt. With both CSS and images disabled, a useragent should be able to draw the USA-map graphically using a fallback css; if using a text-browser, it could render it as a list -> whether they actually do, is an entirely different problem, ie: if an image has 'usemap' (and a map exists with alt attributes) then the text-browser could assume that a flat list could be rendered.
Aside: the spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/objects.html#h-13.6) says "... with a mouse..." regards, Mathew Robertson On 15 October 2010 10:43, Christian Snodgrass <csnodgrass3...@gmail.com>wrote: > That map also illustrates the problem with image maps. > > Disable images and refresh the page. It becomes completely unusable > (granted there are ways to make the image map work better with no images, > but this is the more common situation). > > If they were all separate images with their own alt tags, they could form a > nice little list of states when there are no images. > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
