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0 pointskg4mo ago0 comments

You would create transparent DOM elements in the right places with the right ARIA attributes and content, I suspect.

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I guess that’s what I’d like to see a better API for, then. Mapping on click events for invisible elements feels like a hack.

pmontra4mo ago

It's HTML imagemaps from the 90s, when we could not style buttons and navbars where GIFs with links in the right places. Browsers still have the code to render them.

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

https://caniuse.com/mdn-html_elements_map

MrGilbert4mo ago

OTH, we are still failing to provide a bare minimum for accessibility. Heck, we even needed a law (in the EU, that than needed to be translated to national law), so that companies providing crucial end user services would care about accessibility.

thayne4mo ago

That's possible. But it is difficult to get right, and can have poor performance if you you have many such elements.

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