Success Criterion 1.1.1
Conformance level A

Clickable Image Map Regions With No Individual Names

1.1.1 — Non-text Content

Scenario

Setting

A social media platform's settings menu

What’s wrong

Image maps: <area> missing alt, or alt duplicated/meaningless per region.

Example

<img src="chart.png">

Why it matters

Blind and low-vision people using screen readers, and anyone who browses with images disabled, when icons or photos carry meaning.

How to test

Check every area inside an img usemap: each needs its own specific alt describing its individual destination, not a generic or shared description.

How to fix

Give every image-map area alt text stating its specific destination.

<img src="chart.png" alt="Q3 revenue chart showing 12% growth">

The alt attribute gives assistive technology the same information the image conveys visually.

Outcome

On a social media platform's settings menu, this barrier is gone for blind and low-vision people using screen readers — they reach the same outcome without extra effort.

Who is affected