| Title | Image map areas without description of link purpose |
|---|---|
| Description | A document with a client-side image map that contains three areas ("Home", "News", "Services"). The areas do not contain text alternatives, so there is no text that describes their purpose. |
| Creator | BenToWeb (evlach@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2006-10-25 |
| Status | draft |
Technologies are markup languages or data formats. If the technology is a markup language, “features” refers to elements and attributes.
XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
Feature: img
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification: How to specify alternate text .
Feature: map
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification: How to create client-side image maps .
Feature: area
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification:
Client-side image maps: the map and area elements
.
This test case is intended to fail because the area elements have no text alternatives that describe their purpose.
Accessibility expert.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case needs review before it can be established if it passes or fails the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#navigation-mechanisms-link. The code that causes doubt can be found at line 12, column 76.
The test case needs review before it can be established if it passes or fails the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#navigation-mechanisms-link. The code that causes doubt can be found at line 13, column 78.
The test case needs review before it can be established if it passes or fails the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#navigation-mechanisms-link. The code that causes doubt can be found at line 14, column 82.
There are no alternative texts to describe the purpose of the image map areas.
This test case maps to technique H24: Providing text alternatives for the area elements of image maps
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 12, column 76: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#navigation-mechanisms-link.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 13, column 78: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#navigation-mechanisms-link.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 14, column 82: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#navigation-mechanisms-link.
There are no alternative texts to describe the purpose of the image map areas.
This test case maps to a possible failure of technique H24: Providing a text alternative for the area element (http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/Overview.html#H24).
Online version: sc2.4.8_l3_004.