How Do Popular Email Clients Handle Image Maps

Posted by Tamara Gielen on Nov 15, 2007 | Permalink | Category: Design & Layout

Campaign Monitor tested how image maps perform in the popular email clients. This is what they found:

The results indicate that it’s not a good idea to use image maps. Specifically because of the following issues:

The frequency in which images are disabled
Image maps and their respective images don’t marry well and therefore pose accessibility issues for those visually impaired
Gmail—a very popular email client—doesn’t support them consistently

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