flash accessibility

[StephanieCC]

Having solved the my recent menu problem which I think ws caused by a short script--I now have a question about accessibility--can the menu use alt text for screen readers and/or be tabbed through--currently tab gets stuck on the first button--

http://www.readingacrossri.org

 

[billwatson]

a solution i have followed recently to allow user control of font size can be found here

http://www.actionscript.org/tutorials/intermediate/Control_of_Text_Size/index.shtml

 

[StephanieCC]

Good site Bill--though I didn't get the solution yet--I add a hidden skip navigation link for screen readers--now all I would like is tab to go through the buttons in IE--tab works in Netscape--is this a known problem with Flash in IE or is there a solution?

 

[billwatson]

This is an old piece of code for tabbing.
Modify to suit.

buttons with instance names "name", "email", "address", "zip", "country"
on a timeline.

//in the next frame (cant remember why next frame?) of the timeline that the
buttons appear.//

stop();
a = ["name", "email", "address", "zip", "country"]
Selection.setFocus(a[0]);


//on a blank button on the same timeline

on (keyPress &quot;<Tab>&quot {
//for the case where the user clicks on any button.
if(Selection.getFocus()!=this+&quot;.&quot;+a){
for(i=0; i<a.length; i++){
if(this+&quot;.&quot;+a==Selection.getFocus())break;
}
}
//TAB:forward. SHIFT+TAB:backward.
Selection.setFocus(a[i=(i+!Key.isDown(Key.SHIFT)*2-1+a.length)%a.length]);
}

 

[billwatson]

forgot to mention
I use this in IE without any problems. Works for buttons movie clips and textfields or any combination of them.
set the tab order in the array a
tab goes forward shift tab backward.