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Section 508: (e)

Standard
Redundant text links shall be provided for each active region of a server-side image map.

-- Consistent with WCAG 1.2
 
Types of Alt Text:
These type of maps choose what link the user will follow based on where the user “clicked”.  Not really ever a need to use.

To meet requirements of  Server Side Image Maps:

Provide alt-text for image used in image map

Provide text-equivalents for links used in image maps
Method:
Use “ismap”,“usemap”, and “alt” attributes of IMAGE tag.

<a href=“mymap.map”><img src=“serversidemap.gif” ismap usemap=“Amap” alt=“Map of North Carolina”></a>
 

 

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