At the present time, it may not be enough to provide 'alt' text describing the destination of the link in the AREA element that creates the geometric hot-spots on an imagemap. To ensure everyone can navigate your site, it is still necessary to provide redundant text links.
For a client-side image map describe the destination that each active area will link to. For example:
View the markup that created this example of a client side image map and its text alternative.
In the future, most new browsers will be able to display the alternative text provided with the AREA element.
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