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>]
> [<a tabindex="2" title="General College Information"
> href="../../general/general-pages-index">General Information</a>]
> [<a tabindex="3" title="Sixth Form section of the Alton College website"
> href="../../sixth/sixth-form-index">Sixth Form Information</a>]
> [<a tabindex="4" title="Adult Studies section of the Alton College website"
> href="../../adult/adult-studies-index">Adult Studies Information</a>]
> [<a tabindex="5" title="View more information on the departments and
> subjects at Alton College"
> href="../../departments/department-index">Department Information</a>]
> [<a tabindex="6" title="Alton College News"
> href="../../news/news-index">College News</a>]
> [<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


HTH,

Gerhard

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