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Additional Resources

Providing alternative links when using the OBJECT element - WAI recommended technique.

Alt text and client side image maps - CAST recommended technique.

View WAI Checkpoint 1.2 - Provide redundant text links for each active region of a server-side image map.

View WAI checkpoint 9.1 - Provide client-side image maps instead of server-side image maps except where the regions cannot be defined with an available geometric shape.

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Client-side image maps should be provided instead of server-side image maps. If you must use server-side image maps, provide redundant text links for each link on the image map.

Below is a Client-side image map.
Image Map - Link Three Example. Image Map - Link Two Example. Image Map - Link One Example.

How do "image maps" work?
An "image map" is a picture on a web page that provides different "links" to other web pages, depending on where a user clicks on the image. There are two basic types of image maps: "client-side image maps" and "server-side image maps." Unlike server-side image maps, the client-side image map allow an author to assign text to each image map “hot spots.” This feature means that someone using a screen reader can easily identify and activate regions of the map. (The Access Board)