April 2006
Beginner
544 pages
14h 51m
English
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23.2. Making Content Accessible
Problem
You want to make elements within a movie accessible.
Solution
Specify the name and description of each item that you want to be exposed to screen readers. If necessary, convert the item to a movie clip symbol.
Discussion
The Accessibility panel enables you to expose objects to screen readers. It also enables you to name and provide text descriptions for these objects. You can also use it to hide certain objects from screen readers. This recipe discusses how to use the panel, and more broadly, how to expose, hide, name, and describe Flash objects to maximize accessibility to the substance or meaning of the movie.
The following objects can be exposed to screen readers: movie clip instances, button instances, dynamic text, input text, and the movie as a whole. In addition, static text is automatically exposed and cannot be hidden. (If you want to hide static text, convert it to dynamic text and then hide it.)
Not all Flash content is accessible. Vector graphics drawn or imported into Flash and bitmaps imported into Flash are not accessible. Neither are graphic symbols. However, an easy workaround is to convert the content to a movie clip symbol instance and expose that.
All the objects have some or all of the following settings. To select an object to specify its accessibility, click it on the stage. The only exception is the movie as a whole: to specify its accessibility settings, deselect everything on the stage. Once the object is selected, specify ...
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