A document with image map: the alt attribute of the img element identifies the image and conveys the same information, but the alt attributes of the image map's area elements are empty. Alternative text for areas in client-side image maps: img element with image map; empty alt attributes in image map areas Christophe.Strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be en Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007 2005-08-29 draft How to specify alternate text How to create client-side image maps Client-side image maps: the map and area elements

This test case is intended to fail because the image map areas have no text alternatives. Based on the description above the image and the image's text alernative, a screen reader user might deduce that the three areas are for the three colours (mentioned in the alt text) of the traffic sign, but a screen reader does not necessarily read the colours from top to bottom if the source code order of the image map areas is not the same as the order of the colours.

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Can you identify the image in the image map?

Can you identify the image in the image map?

The image has a text description but none of the areas in the image map has a text description.

The img element has an alt attribute. However, since each of the area elements in the map element has an ampty alt attribute, this case does not pass.

This test case is identical to xhtml1_wcag2_20050630_1.1_l1_sc1_008, except that the alt attributes of the area elements are now empty.

(In Mozilla 1.7.3 and Firefox 1.0, the map does not work if the map element has only an id and no name attribute.)