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Requirement: Provide an accessible name for a map #260

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prushforth opened this issue Feb 15, 2023 · 0 comments
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Requirement: Provide an accessible name for a map #260

prushforth opened this issue Feb 15, 2023 · 0 comments
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discussion: capability a specific capability or feature: should it be included? what details? should it be a requirement? section: map viewer Capabilities & use cases for declarative map viewer widgets

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prushforth commented Feb 15, 2023

The map should be announced, not only that it's an interactive map region, but what it depicts. The detail of that description should be up to the author, but I think location, scale, special content descriptions would be appropriate in many cases.

More detailed location content should actually be in the map and exposed to visual and non-visual users alike, as features.

See related links:

Maps4HTML/MapML.js#736

https://www.tpgi.com/what-is-an-accessible-name/

https://www.w3.org/2020/maps/report#accessibility-a11y

https://www.w3.org/2022/09/12-m4h-minutes.html#:~:text=what%20is%20actually%20displayed%20on%20the%20map

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/figcaption

https://maps4html.org/web-map-doc/docs/elements/map-caption/

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