How Do Popular Email Clients Handle Image Maps
Nov 15, 2007
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
Source: Campaign Monitor
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