Accessibility: WCAG 2.0 A – Active <area> Elements Require Alternate Text

An image map is a single image with many clickable areas.

Like all images, an image map must have alternate text for each of the different clickable areas, as well as for the larger image itself, since screen readers have no way of translating graphics into text.

How to Analyse in the SEO Spider

To populate this filter ‘Accessibility’ must be enabled via ‘Config > Spider > Extraction’ and ‘JavaScript rendering’ mode via ‘Config > Spider > Rendering’.

View URLs with this issue in the ‘Accessibility’ tab and ‘Active <area> Elements Require Alternate Text’ filter.

Use the lower ‘Accessibility Details’ tab to click on the issue on the left-hand side, and see details of the location on the page of the violation on the right-hand side.

Bulk export the pages and details of the accessibility violations via ‘Bulk Export > Accessibility > All Violations’.

What Triggers This Issue

Please view the Deque University website further reading link below for ruleset triggers.

How To Fix

Ensure <area> elements of image maps have alternate text.