WCAG 1.1.1 · Level A
Area Alt
- What is broken
- Clickable regions of an image map have no description of where they lead.
- Who it affects
- Screen reader users hear an unlabelled control and cannot tell what it does without activating it to find out.
- How to fix it
- Give every image-map <area> an alt attribute describing its destination.
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