Repeat image map links as text

Requirement: Repeat the links of an image map as text elsewhere on the page.

Image maps are the ability to set certain areas of image to be active hypertext links. Often you might find this referred to as creating "hotspots" on an image.

Images maps can be server side (a script on the server end interacts with the image) or client-side (within the HTML read by a browser is the information necessary to create the hypertext links).

Today, nearly all images maps are client-side. The problems with image maps are three-fold:

1. Not every Web browser can properly interpret an image map.
2. Sometimes the "hot" area is too small or awkward for users (especially those with impaired motor skills) to properly access the link.
3. Those with a slow Internet connection or using a text-based browser might not see the image. While image maps should have alt attributes, the image-based navigation may still be confusing.

For these reasons, images maps should have their links repeated as texts links somewhere on the page. While it is OK to list the links at the page bottom so as to not interfere with the graphical design of the page, it is best to provide near the first line of the body element an anchored link to this series of links. This would allow a user to skip quickly to these links without having to read the entire page. Also, when listing links next to each other, they must be separated by a space, non-link character or image, and then another space.