Intellectual Property And Accessibility

Protecting Intellectual Property
Although I am pretty certain this is not possible, my manager insists I find a way to do it... so here I am about to ask a very stupid question.

Is it possible in Flash or through some 3rd-party application to load a source FLA into a pre-published Flash movie and "compile" the 2 into a new published Flash movie or projector file?

Kinda like providing a DLL to a customer, then allow them to modify an external source code file and then compile everything into an executable.

Any ideas?

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Protecting Intellectual Property
Although I am pretty certain this is not possible, my manager insists I find a way to do it... so here I am about to ask a very stupid question.

Is it possible in Flash or through some 3rd-party application to load a source FLA into a pre-published Flash movie and "compile" the 2 into a new published Flash movie or projector file?

Kinda like providing a DLL to a customer, then allow them to modify an external source code file and then compile everything into an executable.

Any ideas?

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Accessibility: Use Of _accProps Property
Environment: JAWS 9.0, Flash Pro CS3, ActionScript 2.0
My swf has some dynamic text fields that are updated with ActionScript. I want a screen reader to speak the text field values as they are updated. I am trying to use ._accProps.name on a movie clip instance to make this happen, but so far, no luck. JAWS will read only the initial value of the dynamic text fields when the swf loads, but never reads the string values associated with instance._accProps.name. Here is a snippet of sample code. Any ideas on how to make JAWS read this?









Attach Code

case 0:
mclLoader.loadClip("images/image1.jpg", mcHolder);
caption.text = "Hills Above Wildcat Canyon";
bird.text = "Bewick's Wren";
if (access._accProps == undefined ) {
access._accProps = new Object();
}
access._accProps.name = "Bewick's Wren in hills above Wildcat Canyon";
//we want screen readers to speak the ._accProps.name string
Accessibility.updateProperties();
break;
case 1:
mclLoader.loadClip("images/image2.jpg", mcHolder);
caption.text = "My Backyard Trail, Kensington";
bird.text = "Canyon Wren";
if (access._accProps == undefined ) {
access._accProps = new Object();
}
access._accProps.name = "Canyon Wren along my backyard Trail, Kensington California";
Accessibility.updateProperties();
break;
case 2:
mclLoader.loadClip("images/image3.jpg", mcHolder);
caption.text = "San Pablo Reservoir";
bird.text = "House Finch";
if (access._accProps == undefined ) {
access._accProps = new Object();
}
access._accProps.name = "House Finch near San Pablo Reservoir";
Accessibility.updateProperties();
break;

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. etc.

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Get Property Visibility Set Property Visibilty
I am trying to work out some navigation on a site to make it more user friendly.
I have a number of buttons which when clicked set their correspoding graphic to visible and all the other relevant graphics to invisible.
This is so I can get the graphics to appear in the same place but only one visible at any time so no overlap.
What I already have is a rollover so that when the user rolls over the buttons the corresponding graphic will appear. Then dissappear on rollout. And the script to place my graphic in the right place and make it visible. Here is the script.

on (rollOver) {
setProperty("_root.drag0", _visible, "1");
setProperty("_root.drag1", _visible, "0");
setProperty("_root.drag2", _visible, "0");
}

on (rollOut) {
setProperty("_root.drag0", _visible, "0");
setProperty("_root.drag1", _visible, "0");
setProperty("_root.drag2", _visible, "0");
}

on (release) {
setProperty ("_root.drag0", _x , 323.4);
setProperty ("_root.drag0", _y , 360);
setProperty("_root.drag0", _visible, "1");

}
The bit I can't work out is how to get the graphic which has last been clicked and locked visible (rather than temporaly visible on rollover/out)to revert to being visible on the rollout of the other buttons.
I think I need to use the get property and set property but can't quite work out how to link the two so that it checks which graphic is visible before the rollover on a different button, makes it invisble on the rollover and reverts it back to being visible on the roll out.

Sorry That was long finding it hard to explain.
Thanks for any help you can offer. I am using flash mx 6.0.

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Preloder ScaleX Property And X Property
Hi!

within the loader listener's progressevent I had my preloader mc update the scaleX property and works fine, thus, it moves and scales just like a preloader does until it reaches 100. My only concern is when scaleX updates the preloader mc 'x' location seems to be moving as well making the preloader clip looked liked it scales on both sides (both ends of the line). As i examined the preloader mc 'x' property it stays the same all throughout. This is weird.

anyone?

thank you in advance.

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Accessibility
Has anyone tried the accessibility features of Flash MX?

I am producing a CD ROM for the Federal Governement and they want someone who is blind to be able to tab through the links on the menu page and have their screen reader read out the tags. I have input the text in the accessibility window for these buttons, but when they test out this thing with JAWS. It doesn't do anything to help a blind person. Help!!!!

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Accessibility
Hi

Does anyone know of any decent how 2's for accessibility in Flash MX 2004 Professional.. Im pretty up on it and know most of whats going on, but am having problems with a few buttons that its not recognising..

Im wondering if its something to do with them having nothing in the upstate of the button and therefore being invisible?

ANyone with experience in this field it'd be great if you could let me know of any problems you have encountered and how you got over them?!

Cheers!

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Accessibility Help
I have created a small multimedia project using Flash 8 (Mac OS X) and when I have produced both the projector and .exe files as well as the SWF files the accessibility tabs that I placed on the buttons didn't work. I then tried to "test the movie" and still the tabs dont work properly. However when you look at the various frames on the stage the tab order is shown in the corner.

Please can someone tell me where i am going wrong, it is really starting to annoy me!!!!!!!

Cheers
Paulo86

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Accessibility Help
Hi guys,
i thought i woud have been able to get this done without having to post. Obviously not.

Accessibility Screen readers etc..
I have been working on a project the past week to produce a flash based life insurance calculator.

i have all of the relevent fields and buttons set to play description.
My problem is with the end result(calculations page)
When reading the results the voice narrator olny reads what's in the text box when what i need is for it to read the Accessibility description then the value that's in the field.

Any help would be much appreciatted.
The calculator can be found here if anyone is intrested in seeing it

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Accessibility And AS3
I am trying to make some AS3 flash projects 508 compliant and accessible to screenreaders. I have read a best practice/strategy of placing alternate content for screenreaders off stage. This helps ensure reading order and also allow for alternative strategies of manipulating the content on the page.

However, I cannot seem to get my screenreader (WindowEyes demo) to read any content placed offstage, even if the content is given accessibility properties. I have given accessibility properties via both AS3 and the shift-F11 properties dialogue with no luck.


Code:
package {

import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.accessibility.Accessibility;
import flash.accessibility.AccessibilityProperties;
import flash.utils.setTimeout;


public class OnOffStage extends MovieClip {

public function OnOffStage() {

var accessProps1:AccessibilityProperties = new AccessibilityProperties();
var accessProps2:AccessibilityProperties = new AccessibilityProperties();
var accessProps3:AccessibilityProperties = new AccessibilityProperties();
var accessProps4:AccessibilityProperties = new AccessibilityProperties();

accessProps1.name="OnStage Button";
accessProps1.description="This button is on the stage";

onStage_btn.accessibilityProperties=accessProps1;
onStage_btn.tabIndex=1;

accessProps2.name="OffStage Button";
accessProps2.description="This button is off the stage";
offStage_btn.accessibilityProperties=accessProps2;
offStage_btn.tabIndex=2;

accessProps3.name="Fruits combo";
accessProps3.description="a menu of fruits";
fruits_cmb.accessibilityProperties=accessProps3;
fruits_cmb.tabIndex=3;

accessProps4.name="Fruits combo";
accessProps4.description="a menu of fruits";
offStageText_tb.accessibilityProperties=accessProps4;
offStageText_tb.tabIndex=4;

onStage_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, doOnStageBtn);
offStage_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, doOffStageBtn);
fruits_cmb.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, doFruitsChange);

//Accessibility.updateProperties(); // doesn't matter if I wait or not to update properties

setTimeout(updateAccessibility, 2000);

}

private function doOnStageBtn(e:Event) {
textAlert_tb.text="On stage pushed: currentTarget: "+e.currentTarget.name+", target: "+e.target.name;

}

private function doOffStageBtn(e:Event) {
textAlert_tb.text="Off stage pushed: currentTarget: "+e.currentTarget+", target: "+e.target;

}

private function doFruitsChange(e:Event) {
textAlert_tb.text="Fruits Combo changed";
}

private function updateAccessibility():void {
trace("Accessibility.active: " + Accessibility.active);
if (Accessibility.active) {
Accessibility.updateProperties();
}
}

}
}
Is this strategy not applicable in AS3? I would find this a huge drawback. If so, what is the suggested alternative?

ALSO, I have read that the various form components are accessible. I can get a screenreader to account for a component's name, description, tab order, but I cannot seem to manipulate the component, e.g., select an item in a combo box with a screenreader.

Finally, someone mentioned a recent MAX presentation on accessibility in AS3, but I cannot find it anywhere. Can anyone give me more detail on what was presented?

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Accessibility Help
Hi guys,
i thought i woud have been able to get this done without having to post. Obviously not.
Accessibility Screen readers etc..
I have been working on a project the past week to produce a flash based life insurance calculator.
i have all of the relevent fields and buttons set to play description.
My problem is with the end result(calculations page)
When reading the results the voice narrator olny reads what's in the text box when what i need is for it to read the Accessibility description then the value that's in the field.
Any help would be much appreciatted.
The calculator can be found here if anyone is intrested in seeing it

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Accessibility
Does anyone know of any good reference materials on how to make a Flash web site 508 compliant?

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Accessibility
Currently working on a trial version of MX so I dont have the manual handy.  My question is about setting the tab index for tabing order and speaking order of an element.  I know it is necessary to set tabing index on an element so that it controls both the tabing and speaking order on the screen reader.

Is it possible to do the same and not make it tab-able? meaning just to have it reads the element and not allow  it to be tabing through that element before going to the next one.

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Accessibility Help
Hi guys,
i thought i woud have been able to get this done without having to post. Obviously not.

Accessibility Screen readers etc..
I have been working on a project the past week to produce a flash based life insurance calculator.

i have all of the relevent fields and buttons set to play description.
My problem is with the end result(calculations page)
When reading the results the voice narrator olny reads what's in the text box when what i need is for it to read the Accessibility description then the value that's in the field.

Any help would be much appreciatted.
The calculator can be found here if anyone is intrested in seeing it

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Accessibility
I want to make my project accesibile to all persons(i make an educational app in flash). I've done a search over google but couldn't found any software that helps the persons with disabilities.
Could anyone show me such a program? And if you could give me some advices about accesibility...
Thnx!

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Web Accessibility?
Hey all, I know it slightly off topic, but I’ve got a bit research to do with regards to web accessibility for the blind, and I’m in search of your view or opinions with regards to this.

Would you consider making available for the blind when building a new site?

Are you aware of any Acts or Sections in your country?

Design or Access? What is your priority?

If you think of anything else, feel free to add it!

Cheers

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Keyboard Accessibility
hi,

can anyone plz help me with this one!!!!!

When u embed some Flash content within a page that also contains HTML content, the user will become trapped within the multimedia content as soon as they access it (using tab key) within the flow of the page. By using the keyboard alone, there is no way to exit the Flash content and return focus to the HTML document.

Is there any solution for this??? What code do i have to write to get the focus back to the HTML doc. using the Tab key.



--arein78

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Turn Off Accessibility
My medling boyfriend turn accessibility on somewhere in my flash movie. Now every time I publish I get an annoying message about Flash 5 not supporting accessibility. I've tried turning it off Window-> Accessibility but I still get the message every time. I suspect accessibility has been applied to one instance somewhere in the movie. Is there any way to turn it off throughout the entire movie?

Someone else explained it better on the Macromedia forum: http://webforums.macromedia.com/flas...hreadid=324190

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Tab Accessibility In HTML That Contains A .swf
I posted this on in the General Flash board but haven't heard anything. Thought I'd try over here to see if anyone has tangled with this problem.

I'm having a problem with tab accessibility using a flash movie inside an HTML page. When the user first tabs through the HTML links and then finally gets to the swf, the flash loops through its links and won't allow the user to continue tabbing through the page, effectively trapping the user within the flash movie.

Any ideas as to how to only allow the swf one run through the links before passing the user on to the rest of the HTML page?

Because of accessibility requirements for the stuff I'm working on, this is unacceptable and may prevent us from using flash altogether. It seems like Macromedia would have thought of this...there's gotta be some kind of fix!

Thanks for any help provided.

Josh

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Accessibility With Components
Hello

I’ve created a form that I’ve put inside a scroll pane component. My problem is that it wont ‘tab’ through the text fields. This is a bit of a problem, since I use a screen reader (JAWS) and MX is supposed to be accessible to the visually impaired.. Is there a way around this?

Cheers

yeffer

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Flash Accessibility
Does anyone know if the Flash MX accessibility function also prints the text discritptions out or is it just for the reader?

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Flash MX And Accessibility
Does anyone know if the Flash MX accessibility function also prints the text discritptions out or is it just for the reader

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Flash 5 Accessibility
I know Flash 6 has some built in accessibility stuff, but what about Flash 5? For instance, if a blind person tabs to a Flash button, what will their screen reader say? Anything?

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Accessibility Issue
When tabbing through a page, once the flash movie is tabbed, the user can no longer tab through the rest of the document. Any info would be great on what is happening, and what is required to fix the problem.

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Accessibility Issue
When tabbing through a web page that the banner is placed on, the user can no longer tab through the page because it get's stuck on the flash movie.
If anyone has any knowledge of this problem I could really use any help at all.

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Accessibility And Flash
Hello folks,

I am developing an accessible Flash website that can be read by screenreaders...

On the first screen that is loaded by the browser (say the home page) the content is read fine by the screenreader - however when I move to another frame with new text content in or update the text dynamically, the screen reader (both Jaws and Window-eyes) refuses to read the new content no matter how many Accessibility.updateProperties() I put in!

Has anyone had any experience with screenreaders and accessibility?

You can find an example of the source fla and swf at:

screentest.fla
screentest.html

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Help With Accessibility For Blind
I have an index page. I want to make the links accessible for the blind, therefore I want to have the buttons speak what the links are. Besides the obvious way of having each button have a sound file. I was looking for a way to design the buttons that are compatible with the narrator that is on most comps. I don't want to have to overload my page with to many sounds to keep load time down. Is there any suggestions on how to make this compatible with the narrator? Advice would be very helpful.

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Flash Accessibility.
Flash Accessibility.

Does anyone have any tutorial/resource regarding Flash Accessibility?

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Flash Accessibility.
Flash Accessibility.

Does anyone have any tutorial/resource regarding Flash Accessibility?

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Accessibility Problem
I'm trying the Accessibility.updateProperties() function to get work but i can't. I have have a sub movie and when the sub movie ends playing .. i want the screen reader to read a description. so i'm using the following code on the last frame of the sub movie

_root._accProps = new Object();
_root._accProps.name = "the description ...";
Accessibility.updateProperties();
stop();

but when that frame is played nothing is read by the screen reader ( window eyes )???

Can anyone tell me where i'm doing it wrong please ?

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Dynamic Accessibility
Hi guys...

So i've been doing some looking around and haven't come up with anything on how to assign the name and description (as in the accessibility panel) dynamically.

It would seem as though I could fill those in as an attribute of an xml file or at least through AS, but everything i've seen only says the actual window is the only way to go.

any thoughts?

thanks
chris

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Some Accessibility Questions
Hello All,

Is it possible to make screen reader read just the name property of the _accProps Object and omitting the word "Button" when using Flash Accessibility? So instead of saying "hello button" it only says "hello"

Also, Screen readers seems to eat up the tab and arrow keys. is there a way around that?

And one last thing. how does the Flash Focus Manager work? because the screen readers are eating up the keys... they render my custom focus manager useless...so it would be nice to extend flash native focus manager.. but i cna't find any documentation on it. any help is much appreciated.

Thank you

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Accessibility: Hyperlinks
I have come across the issue of hyperlinks in dynamic text fields being unavailable to screen readers. Is there a fix for this at all?

I'm developing for Flash Player 7 and using JAWS 7.0 to test.

Thanks in advance.

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Flash Accessibility
hi people..

i'm new in here and i need some help..
i'm doing a project for my school's project..
and i need to do a rich media website which is accessible for the
visually or hearing disabled..

i'm doing flash to enhance the website, however i need to make the flash accessible in order for the screen reader to read..

here is my coding:

_accProps = new Object();
_accProps.name = "introflash"
btn9._accProps.name = "Stories";
Accessibility.updateProperties();

is there any thing wrong with it, coz it doesnt work out?
or how should i do it to make it accessible to the screen reader?

btw..i'm using JAWS as my screen reader.

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Accessibility Panel
When you use the accessibility window to attach a tab order to a form field, where does Flash actually insert that piece of code. It doesn't seem to be attached to the input field itself and I can't find it in any .as files.

I don't have any problem with tabbing, I'm just curious where the accessibility interface puts code.

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MovieClip Accessibility
HI,

I am facing a problem with accessibility of my application.

I have a movieclip on stage. It's accessibility name is "movieClip 1".
This works fine.

But when I load an image on it:

mc1.loadMovie("cat.jpg");

Browser takes it as unlabeled button.

Can anyone suggest anything?

Thanks...

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Flash Accessibility
I am doing a 4th year dissertation on Flash web sites, how easy is it to add accessibilty to a Flash site?Does anyone know if there are any online tutorials for adding accessibility to Flash web sites? Any info or opinions on accessibility let me know.

Please help!!!

Thanx.

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Flash 8 Accessibility
I am working on a project that is in line with the 508 standards. Therefore everything must be working in a screen reader, I am currently testing with JAWS. Is there a way to force the reader to read something new that just pops up automatically. I'll give an example. If I have a multiple choice question, and the client selects an answer to the question and then a box appears with the answer in it, how can I make the reader read that box as soon as it opens?

Thanks

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Flash Accessibility
I am working on a project that is in line with the 508 standards. Therefore everything must be working in a screen reader, I am currently testing with JAWS. Is there a way to force the reader to read something new that just pops up automatically. I'll give an example. If I have a multiple choice question, and the client selects an answer to the question and then a box appears with the answer in it, how can I make the reader read that box as soon as it opens?

Thanks

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Accessibility In Flash
Well... I've run into a brick wall.

I'm developing a small app that does the following:

Input Text box with Submit button on first frame...
when user enters a value and clicks submit, a small chart exposes the user's value along with 3 other static value bars in a graph
I can get Jaws 8 screen reader to call out the headers, submit button and input text box on the first frame.

however, I can not get the screen reader to read the headers and values after the user clicks the submit button and is taken to another frame in the mc.

Any advice? For Adobe to be promoting accessibility so much, I find it disappointing that there aren't more tutorials on this subject.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

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Accessibility Issues
Links within htmlText are not accessible, meaning users cannot tab to them, is there a known workaround for this ?

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Accessibility Issues
Links within htmlText are not accessible, meaning users cannot tab to them, is there a known workaround for this ?

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Accessibility: Combobox
Hi
I need to add accessibility to a flash program which I have created.
I can make the screen reader state all of the different buttons and at the top level of a combobox.
However if I traverse the combobox none of the items are mentioned by the screenreader.
I've tried various things down to trying to set the accessibility properties of the combobox items as though they were an array
cb[0].accessibilityProperties = accessProps0;
but nothing seems to work.
I hope I'm just being stupid and it's a problem that someone can help me easily with because I'm going nuts here!

Thanks in advance

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Accessibility: Combobox
Hi
I need to add accessibility to a flash program which I have created.
I can make the screen reader state all of the different buttons and at the top level of a combobox.
However if I traverse the combobox none of the items are mentioned by the screenreader.
I've tried various things down to trying to set the accessibility properties of the combobox items as though they were an array
cb[0].accessibilityProperties = accessProps0;
but nothing seems to work.
I hope I'm just being stupid and it's a problem that someone can help me easily with because I'm going nuts here!

Thanks in advance

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CSS And Adding Accessibility
Sorry not sure if I'm the right forum here...

I'm tying to add a few buttons in CSS so users can change the text size for the page. Any idea how I could do that?

wB

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Flash Accessibility
Hi guys,

Right, I've got a client that wants to have a flash multimedia player, but they are getting really twitchy about accesibility. I'm doing some research into making the flash movie accessible, but then I thought - hang on, I'm driving the whole site from XML.

Would it be completely barmy, imposible, or just stupid to try and point the screen readers at the xml? I've done nothing with screen readers, so thought I'd pose the question before spending hours trying to do something impossible/and or useless.

Tim

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Listbox Accessibility...
How will i make the scrren reader read the items from listbox?

I have used properties like make movie accessible and make child object accessible but still screen reader dosn't read it...

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Movieclip Accessibility
HI,

I am facing a problem with accessibility of my application.

I have a movieclip on stage. It's accessibility name is "movieClip 1".
This works fine.

But when I load an image on it:

mc1.loadMovie("cat.jpg");

Browser takes it as unlabeled button.

Can anyone tell me why its taking it as unlabelled button?(I am using jaws 7.0)

Thanks...

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Flash And Accessibility
Hello,

I have a question about Flash when it comes to accessibility. Is Flash accessible at all? Do the common screen readers offer any features for Flash? If so, what and exactly how common are they? Can they read text in Flash or what? Or is it completely inaccessible?

To the best of my knowledge, Flash is completely inaccessible to screen readers, but I haven't actually been able to test this or find any clear answer on the subject.

Thanks.

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