Re: <MAP> tag

Response at end of message below.

----- Original Message -----
From: Gerhard Schoening <g.sch(at)onlinehome.de>
To: <aware-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: <MAP> tag


> Hello Alan,
>
> On Wednesday, August 14, 2002 at 09:55 you wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to make our site accessable for screen readers and people
who can
> > not use pointing devices such as a mouse.  I have put the following
code on
> > pages to give a navigation bar, but constantly get an error saying
'Invalid
> > Markup', 'Marked invalid because it doesnt belong inside the tag its
in'.
>
> > <MAP title="Main Navigation Bar">
> > [<a tabindex="1" title="View this websites sitemap"
> > href="../../site-map">Site Map</a>]
[list of similar links snipped]
> > [<a tabindex="7" title="Sixth Form Course Index"
> > href="../course-information">Course Index</a>]
> > </map>
>
> Remove the MAP element - you probably don't have a
> client-side image map...
> Please look at the code examples (scroll down a few times)
> of
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/objects.html#edef-MAP

If I understand it correctly, MAP can be used simply to define a group
of links as a single navigation object, as in the example given in the
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines - see
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#group-bypass.

Regards,
Donna

HWG: hwg-basics mailing list archives, maintained by Webmasters @ IWA