Re: alt tags in image maps

Hi Rayne-

I believe Jason has the answer; insert a [title="alt text"] attribute in
your [a href]'s.  (I am using brackets instead of gt and lt, just
substitute) e.g. [a href="http://www.coolwebsite.com/coolest.html" title="A
link to the coolest stuff at www.coolwebsite.com."] Cool [/a]...of course,
you wouldn't use the "Cool" as your link, but instead, the coordinates on
your map. If I've got this all screwed up again, I'm sure someone will let
me know...hehehe.

Hmmmm....I never thought about the accessibility issue for users who are
visually impaired, and, instead of using a "text to speach" browser, or a
Braille reader, may very likely be using a browser like IE or NN, with
images turned off to save download time. Makes me wonder if I should go
back through all of my links and add a title="" to all of my [a] tags. I
always try to achieve Bobby approval, at least level one, as well as W3C
validation, and have never used this attribute on a href's. Maybe it's time
I started? :))

Good luck,
 
Mike



At 11:13 AM 4/28/00 -0500, Rayne Alburquerque wrote:
>I may not have made myself clear. I'm taking the accessibilty class and we
>have to turn images off. On an image map, the alt text for the links don't
>show up if the images are turned off. Is there any way to have them show up.
>Do I need to break the image?
>
>Thanks,
>Rayne
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Rayne Alburquerque <rayneal(at)home.com>
>To: HGW-Basics <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
>Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 9:36 PM
>Subject: alt tags in image maps
>
>
>I have a question. How is text represented in the links of an image map. I
>used the regular alt attribute for each link in my image map, but the only
>text that shows up is is the main image text.
>
>Can anyone explain this? Where I am talking about is:
>http://www.raynebair.com/chiquita/.
>
>Thanks,
>Rayne
>
>
>

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