[thelist] Accessible Links in an imagemap

>I wasn't clear earlier - I'm not using this for navigation. I've got a map
>of the world divided into regions, and each region pops up a window with
>statistical data about that specific region. The map's too big to fit the
>stats directly under or above the image, and still have it remain on one
>screen in 800x600, which is our target resolution. This was what spawned
the
>idea of using the pop-ups.

Maybe you could use :
<area .... href="yourpage.html" target="_blank" >
thats accessible & opens the map in a new window....

HTH
ashok