Proposal for WCAG 1. I took an action item to write a technique for using the MAP element to group navigation links. The main sticking point in the minutes was that the HTML recommendation did not specify say that it was o.k. to use MAP to mark up block content not associated with an image. An image map is associated with an element via the element's usemap attribute.
Navigation bars are usually the first thing someone encounters on a page.
For users with speech synthesizers, this means hearing a number of links on every page before reaching the interesting content. This attribute is not yet widely supported. In the future, user agents will allow users to skip over elements such as navigation bars. Navigation bars are usually the first thing someone encounters on a page. For users with speech synthesizers, this means having to hear a number of links on every page before reaching the interesting content of a page.