Control The Tab Order And Reading Order - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-FLASH Tutorials Manual

84 Basic Tasks: Create Accessible Flash Content
2. In the Property inspector, select Dynamic Text from the Text Type
pop-up menu.
Accessibility settings now appear in the Accessibility panel.
3.
In the Instance name text box, enter text9_txt.
To specify a tab order and reading order, which you'll do next, you must
provide an instance name for all instances. The instance name must be
unique in your document.
Control the tab order and reading
order
You can create a tab order that determines the order in which objects
receive focus when the users press the Tab key. You can also control the
order in which a screen reader reads information about the object (known
as the reading order). You can create both the tab and reading order using
the property in ActionScript (In ActionScript, the
tabIndex
property is synonymous with the reading order). If you have Flash
Professional 8, you can use the Accessibility panel to specify the tab order,
but the tab index that you assign does not necessarily control the
reading order.
To create a reading order, you must assign a tab index to every instance in
ActionScript.
If you have Flash Professional, creating a tab order is as easy as entering a
number in the Tab Index text box. You can then view the tab order directly
on the Stage.
tabIndex