Chapter 5: Basic Tasks: Create Accessible Flash Content - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-FLASH Tutorials Manual

CHAPTER 5
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Basic Tasks: Create Accessible
Flash Content
With knowledge of a few design techniques and accessibility features in
Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and Macromedia Flash Professional 8, you can
create Flash content that is accessible to all users, including those with
disabilities.
This lesson demonstrates how to create an accessible document, designed
for use with screen readers (which read web content aloud for visually
impaired users) and other assistive technologies.
You can print this tutorial by downloading a PDF version of it from the
Macromedia Flash Documentation page at www.macromedia.com/go/
fl_documentation.
In this tutorial, you will complete the following tasks:
Make your document accessible to screen readers . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Provide a document title and description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Provide a title and description for instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Specify that screen readers ignore elements in your document . 83
Change static text to dynamic text for accessibility . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Control the tab order and reading order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
The lesson offers an introduction to basic techniques of making your Flash
content accessible. For detailed and comprehensive information about
incorporating accessibility features in your Flash content, see "Creating
Accessible Content" in Using Flash.
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