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DRAFT DOCUMENT

This is a draft document supplied by the WCAG Techniques Task Force. It in no way represents a WCAG Working Group consensus or agreement and is provided for informational and discussion purposes only. The accessibility test listed below should not be construed as required for conformance with the proposed WCAG2.

HTML Test Suite for WCAG 2.0
Test 13 - All links in all client side image-maps are duplicated within the content.

W3C Editor's Draft 2005-08-11

Editors:
Chris Ridpath, ATRC, University Of Toronto
Jenae Andershonis, Microsoft Inc.

Abstract

This test case was created by the ATRC at the University Of Toronto. It should not be construed as required for conformance with the proposed WCAG2.

The complete list of tests may be found at http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/tests/

Comments on this test may be made to the WCAG mailing list.


Status Of This Test

As part of the conformance test process, this test has a status of 'accepted'.


WCAG2 Guideline

Guideline: 2.1 - Make all functionality operable via a keyboard interface.
Success Criteria: 2. For functional non-text content , text alternatives serve the same purpose as the non-text content. If text alternatives can not serve the same purpose as the functional non-text content, text alternatives identify the purpose of the functional non-text content Non-text content that uses technologies outside the baseline must satisfy guideline 4.2 . How to provide text alternatives for content that is functional . (Informative)

Level 2

The WCAG2 has 3 priority levels for making Web content accessible. This test has a priority of 'Level 2'.


Techniques

The WCAG Working Group has created techniques that describe how Web content may be made accessible. The following techniques are related to this test:


Prerequisite Tests

There are no prerequisite tests for this test.


Test Process

Procedure

  1. Check each img element that contains a usemap attribute.
  2. Find the MAP element that is referred by the usemap attribute.
  3. Check if each area element in the MAP contains a duplicate link in the content.

Expected Results

  1. All links in all client side image-maps are duplicated within the content.

Fail Instructions

  1. Add a set of text links that duplicate the text links in the image map.

Pass Instructions

Any accessibility check may be performed after this test.


Test Files

These test files contain examples of the accessibility problem detectable by this test. They may also contain more accessibility problems than the one described in this test. Please ignore any extraneous accessibility problems in these files.

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