Need to specify how map-a links are accessible to screenreaders

Maps4HTML / MapML-Specification

Map Markup Language is hypertext for Web maps, like HTML is hypertext for Web pages https://maps4html.org/MapML-Specification/spec/

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Need to specify how map-a links are accessible to screenreaders #258

Open prushforth opened 7 months ago

prushforth commented 7 months ago

Currently the text content of a map-a tag is the geometry value for a feature, or some part of it. This is great for sighted users, but will be inaccessible to screenreader users.

We need a way to allow human-readable text to provide the link text, probably via an attribute. The HTML area element uses the alt attribute.

Malvoz commented 3 months ago

The global HTML attribute title and ARIA aria-label should suffice, no need to specify alt for links.

Linking https://github.com/Maps4HTML/MapML/issues/181.