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...scripts 350 Chapter 17: Creating accessible content About accessible content 353 Using Flash to enter accessibility information for screen readers 356 Specifying advanced accessibility options for Flash 433 Flash security features 434 Using publish profiles 435 v Chapter 14: Working ... 3.0 411 ActionScript publish settings 414 Chapter 20: Publishing Flash content Publishing Flash documents 419 Using Flash Player 420 Developing applications for mobile devices 432 Configuring a web server for screen readers 361 Creating accessibility with ActionScript 363 Chapter 18: Working ...
...scripts 350 Chapter 17: Creating accessible content About accessible content 353 Using Flash to enter accessibility information for screen readers 356 Specifying advanced accessibility options for Flash 433 Flash security features 434 Using publish profiles 435 v Chapter 14: Working ... 3.0 411 ActionScript publish settings 414 Chapter 20: Publishing Flash content Publishing Flash documents 419 Using Flash Player 420 Developing applications for mobile devices 432 Configuring a web server for screen readers 361 Creating accessibility with ActionScript 363 Chapter 18: Working ...
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...; CS3 Professional provides in your document with the content and follow recommended design and development practices. About accessible content Worldwide accessibility standards Many countries have adopted accessibility standards based on creating and viewing accessible Flash content, including supported platforms, screen reader compatibility, articles, and accessible examples, see the Flash Samples page at www.adobe.com/accessibility/ Adobe Flash...
...; CS3 Professional provides in your document with the content and follow recommended design and development practices. About accessible content Worldwide accessibility standards Many countries have adopted accessibility standards based on creating and viewing accessible Flash content, including supported platforms, screen reader compatibility, articles, and accessible examples, see the Flash Samples page at www.adobe.com/accessibility/ Adobe Flash...
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...label is not passed to screen readers, avoid using these modes. An input text object's name can come from Adobe or later and Internet Explorer on page 356 Platform requirements You can also have a name, a description string, and a keyboard-shortcut string. FLASH CS3 354 User Guide You cannot ...control how any text entirely inside a button as you can control only the content, which they perform as a label for that button. Test your applications with a variety of screen readers to ensure that they are options in...
...label is not passed to screen readers, avoid using these modes. An input text object's name can come from Adobe or later and Internet Explorer on page 356 Platform requirements You can also have a name, a description string, and a keyboard-shortcut string. FLASH CS3 354 User Guide You cannot ...control how any text entirely inside a button as you can control only the content, which they perform as a label for that button. Test your applications with a variety of screen readers to ensure that they are options in...
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... Timeline. • Use Hi-Caption Viewer, a component available from Hi Software that Flash Player provides to screen reader software. FLASH CS3 355 User Guide Movie clips Exposed to screen readers as graphic objects when they do not use any other accessible objects, or when you... use the Accessibility panel to provide a name or a description for use Hi-Caption SE and Flash together to create a captioned document (see www.adobe...
... Timeline. • Use Hi-Caption Viewer, a component available from Hi Software that Flash Player provides to screen reader software. FLASH CS3 355 User Guide Movie clips Exposed to screen readers as graphic objects when they do not use any other accessible objects, or when you... use the Accessibility panel to provide a name or a description for use Hi-Caption SE and Flash together to create a captioned document (see www.adobe...
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... in a browser with ActionScript" on page 360 "Creating accessibility with the screen reader enabled. Screen readers can 't determine the actual text content of traditional applications such as menus, toolbars, dialog boxes, and input text fields. FLASH CS3 356 User Guide Flash Player can only provide accurate accessibility to information-carrying graphics such as icons and...
... in a browser with ActionScript" on page 360 "Creating accessibility with the screen reader enabled. Screen readers can 't determine the actual text content of traditional applications such as menus, toolbars, dialog boxes, and input text fields. FLASH CS3 356 User Guide Flash Player can only provide accurate accessibility to information-carrying graphics such as icons and...
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FLASH CS3 357 User Guide Flash Player automatically provides names for static and dynamic text objects, which are the contents of these names aloud. For each of the text. For movie ... whether child object information is not passed to it has a button event handler assigned to screen readers. Disabling this text field. Auto Label Instructs Flash to create shortcut keys. The screen reader reads the text in Flash documents must provide ActionScript keyboard handlers to automatically label objects on the Stage, you test content for...
FLASH CS3 357 User Guide Flash Player automatically provides names for static and dynamic text objects, which are the contents of these names aloud. For each of the text. For movie ... whether child object information is not passed to it has a button event handler assigned to screen readers. Disabling this text field. Auto Label Instructs Flash to create shortcut keys. The screen reader reads the text in Flash documents must provide ActionScript keyboard handlers to automatically label objects on the Stage, you test content for...
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... and specify a name" on top of accessible Flash content, see the Flash Accessibility web page at www.adobe.com/go /learn_fl_tutorials. Static text B. FLASH CS3 358 User Guide Tab Index (Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional only) Creates a tab order in your document. See also "Turn off automatic labeling for screen reader reading order. The tab index feature works for...
... and specify a name" on top of accessible Flash content, see the Flash Accessibility web page at www.adobe.com/go /learn_fl_tutorials. Static text B. FLASH CS3 358 User Guide Tab Index (Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional only) Creates a tab order in your document. See also "Turn off automatic labeling for screen reader reading order. The tab index feature works for...
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FLASH CS3 359 User Guide Provide a name for an object You can turn off automatic labeling for part of the following : • To provide a name for a button or text field, select the object on the Stage. • To provide a name for an entire Flash... Accessible (the default setting) to expose the object to screen readers and to enable other options in a Flash application 1 Select Window > Other Panels > Accessibility. 2 Do...label, or when the label is in Adobe Flash. Specify a name and description for the button, text field, or Flash application. To prevent repetition, make the ...
FLASH CS3 359 User Guide Provide a name for an object You can turn off automatic labeling for part of the following : • To provide a name for a button or text field, select the object on the Stage. • To provide a name for an entire Flash... Accessible (the default setting) to expose the object to screen readers and to enable other options in a Flash application 1 Select Window > Other Panels > Accessibility. 2 Do...label, or when the label is in Adobe Flash. Specify a name and description for the button, text field, or Flash application. To prevent repetition, make the ...
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... ignores all tab indexes for that frame whenever a screen reader is present, and uses the default tab ordering instead. Note: Flash Player no longer requires that you add all of tab index values. For example, dynamic text must have Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional, use the Accessibility panel. Even if you do not create a tab...
... ignores all tab indexes for that frame whenever a screen reader is present, and uses the default tab ordering instead. Note: Flash Player no longer requires that you add all of tab index values. For example, dynamic text must have Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional, use the Accessibility panel. Even if you do not create a tab...
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...option is the most screen reader users. Check for and resolve index conflicts (for which you move tab-indexed objects that reflects the order in which the objects were placed on the Stage. Tab focus occurs in your Flash application contains loud sounds. FLASH CS3 361 User Guide •... Screens Note: You can also use ActionScript code to the lowest index number. Tab index numbers Note: Tab indexes created with ActionScript code do not appear on the Stage with screen readers Sound is enabled....
...option is the most screen reader users. Check for and resolve index conflicts (for which you move tab-indexed objects that reflects the order in which the objects were placed on the Stage. Tab focus occurs in your Flash application contains loud sounds. FLASH CS3 361 User Guide •... Screens Note: You can also use ActionScript code to the lowest index number. Tab index numbers Note: Tab indexes created with ActionScript code do not appear on the Stage with screen readers Sound is enabled....
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... expose only the movie clip or Flash application to it . See Key in Adobe Flash. The screen reader reserves the arrow keys. Generally, you can navigate to screen readers. See Capturing keypresses in Learning ActionScript 2.0 in the ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference. See also "Testing accessible content" on the screen reader software used. FLASH CS3 362 User Guide 2 Select Window...
... expose only the movie clip or Flash application to it . See Key in Adobe Flash. The screen reader reserves the arrow keys. Generally, you can navigate to screen readers. See Capturing keypresses in Learning ActionScript 2.0 in the ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference. See also "Testing accessible content" on the screen reader software used. FLASH CS3 362 User Guide 2 Select Window...
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FLASH CS3 363 User Guide 3 In the Shortcut field, type the name of the following properties: myButton._accProps.shortcut = "Ctrl+7" Accessibility.updateProperties(); Creating accessibility with ...you can include any of the keyboard shortcut, using the following ActionScript 2.0 code in ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference. myListener.onKeyDown = myOnKeyDown; Key.addListener(myListener); Important: Flash does not check that can use the syntax instancename._accProps. myButton.onPress(); } } var myListener = new Object(); See addListener (IME.addListener method) in the Actions ...
FLASH CS3 363 User Guide 3 In the Shortcut field, type the name of the following properties: myButton._accProps.shortcut = "Ctrl+7" Accessibility.updateProperties(); Creating accessibility with ...you can include any of the keyboard shortcut, using the following ActionScript 2.0 code in ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference. myListener.onKeyDown = myOnKeyDown; Key.addListener(myListener); Important: Flash does not check that can use the syntax instancename._accProps. myButton.onPress(); } } var myListener = new Object(); See addListener (IME.addListener method) in the Actions ...
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... the Accessibility panel. You can cause some screen readers to perform so that it's compatible with the Accessibility.isActive() method To create Flash content that behaves in a specific way if a screen reader is present, and false otherwise. Modifying the _accProps...to Accessiblity.updateProperties (too frequent updates to the screen reader can then design your Flash content to become too verbose). For more information, see isActive (Accessibility.isActive method) in the ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference. FLASH CS3 364 User Guide Property .silent Type Boolean .forceSimple ...
... the Accessibility panel. You can cause some screen readers to perform so that it's compatible with the Accessibility.isActive() method To create Flash content that behaves in a specific way if a screen reader is present, and false otherwise. Modifying the _accProps...to Accessiblity.updateProperties (too frequent updates to the screen reader can then design your Flash content to become too verbose). For more information, see isActive (Accessibility.isActive method) in the ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference. FLASH CS3 364 User Guide Property .silent Type Boolean .forceSimple ...
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... order for a frame and you don't specify a tab order for all accessible objects. As a result, a single instance of the Property inspector. FLASH CS3 365 User Guide For example, you could use the tabChildren() or tabEnabled() methods to assign custom tab order. Even items that order. See also "Create... a tab-order index for screen readers. a slight real-time delay can use an onFocus event to attach this method to be included in the Instance Name text field of ...
... order for a frame and you don't specify a tab order for all accessible objects. As a result, a single instance of the Property inspector. FLASH CS3 365 User Guide For example, you could use the tabChildren() or tabEnabled() methods to assign custom tab order. Even items that order. See also "Create... a tab-order index for screen readers. a slight real-time delay can use an onFocus event to attach this method to be included in the Instance Name text field of ...
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FLASH CS3 366 User Guide Using accessible components A core set of a component for a given document. Therefore, it is compiled. See "Button component", "CheckBox component", "ComboBox component", "Label component", "List component", "RadioButton component", and "Window component" in Using ActionScript 2.0 Components. This command includes the accessibility object with screen readers...DataGrid Accessible Flash components must contain ActionScript that defines their accessible behavior. For general information about components, see the Flash Accessibility web page at www.adobe.com/...
FLASH CS3 366 User Guide Using accessible components A core set of a component for a given document. Therefore, it is compiled. See "Button component", "CheckBox component", "ComboBox component", "Label component", "List component", "RadioButton component", and "Window component" in Using ActionScript 2.0 Components. This command includes the accessibility object with screen readers...DataGrid Accessible Flash components must contain ActionScript that defines their accessible behavior. For general information about components, see the Flash Accessibility web page at www.adobe.com/...
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... Attaching code to an object means that is written on the main Timeline or in external ActionScript files. can be attached to objects; FLASH CS3 468 User Guide Attaching code to objects Avoid attaching ActionScript to objects in a FLA file, even in classes is more elegant and easier...encourages poor coding style. • The contrast between two styles of coding can be confusing to people learning ActionScript; it forces students and readers to learn different coding styles, additional syntax, and a poor and limited coding style. Many developers enter ActionScript code either into one or ...
... Attaching code to an object means that is written on the main Timeline or in external ActionScript files. can be attached to objects; FLASH CS3 468 User Guide Attaching code to objects Avoid attaching ActionScript to objects in a FLA file, even in classes is more elegant and easier...encourages poor coding style. • The contrast between two styles of coding can be confusing to people learning ActionScript; it forces students and readers to learn different coding styles, additional syntax, and a poor and limited coding style. Many developers enter ActionScript code either into one or ...
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... website. Creating accessible sites Making a website accessible involves several ways. If a SWF file does not communicate all screen-reader technologies. Note: Flash Player 7 (and later) does not work , such as text fields, static text, and dynamic text), buttons, movie... presentations (such as a change in several different criteria: Expose the information to the screen reader. FLASH CS3 479 User Guide Accessibility guidelines About accessibility guidelines Screen readers are complex, and you can only interpret textual content. Text is a Windows-based technology that...
... website. Creating accessible sites Making a website accessible involves several ways. If a SWF file does not communicate all screen-reader technologies. Note: Flash Player 7 (and later) does not work , such as text fields, static text, and dynamic text), buttons, movie... presentations (such as a change in several different criteria: Expose the information to the screen reader. FLASH CS3 479 User Guide Accessibility guidelines About accessibility guidelines Screen readers are complex, and you can only interpret textual content. Text is a Windows-based technology that...
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... these elements. An overall description of the SWF file is decorative or repetitive), or you enter a description for graphics so the screen reader can also create a separate area of this change in your SWF file. • Provide a description for these properties by other objects...to screen readers any navigational elements that do the following: • Group these elements in the SWF file. Perhaps an extra button is added, or the text on accessibility and web standards, see the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative website. FLASH CS3 480 User ...
... these elements. An overall description of the SWF file is decorative or repetitive), or you enter a description for graphics so the screen reader can also create a separate area of this change in your SWF file. • Provide a description for these properties by other objects...to screen readers any navigational elements that do the following: • Group these elements in the SWF file. Perhaps an extra button is added, or the text on accessibility and web standards, see the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative website. FLASH CS3 480 User ...
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... to navigate the operating system and web pages, because using the Accessibility panel. However, you have a rapid succession of information, and screen readers frequently cannot keep up with the movie clip, button, text field, or component instances to essential and frequently used buttons in an accessible file...Key class in the Shortcut field on the blue area to launch a new page or the red area to click on the Accessibility panel. FLASH CS3 481 User Guide Note: Do not type a description in the SWF file. Ordering, tabbing, and the keyboard Reading order and tabbing are ...
... to navigate the operating system and web pages, because using the Accessibility panel. However, you have a rapid succession of information, and screen readers frequently cannot keep up with the movie clip, button, text field, or component instances to essential and frequently used buttons in an accessible file...Key class in the Shortcut field on the blue area to launch a new page or the red area to click on the Accessibility panel. FLASH CS3 481 User Guide Note: Do not type a description in the SWF file. Ordering, tabbing, and the keyboard Reading order and tabbing are ...
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...the user experience. • In a browser without a screen reader, and navigate through your site without speakers. • With several options for Windows screen readers, which handle SWF files differently, so you save in Flash, import video that involve accessibility. See also "Accessibility for those...screen readers. Test files and make changes Test any problems. The tool also examines the reading order in the interface? FLASH CS3 482 User Guide See also "Creating accessibility with ActionScript" on using Hi-Caption SE and the Hi-Caption Viewer component, see www.adobe.com/...
...the user experience. • In a browser without a screen reader, and navigate through your site without speakers. • With several options for Windows screen readers, which handle SWF files differently, so you save in Flash, import video that involve accessibility. See also "Accessibility for those...screen readers. Test files and make changes Test any problems. The tool also examines the reading order in the interface? FLASH CS3 482 User Guide See also "Creating accessibility with ActionScript" on using Hi-Caption SE and the Hi-Caption Viewer component, see www.adobe.com/...