Provide A Document Title And Description; Provide A Title And Description For Instances; Specify That Screen Readers Ignore Elements In Your Document - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-LEARNING FLASH Manual

Provide a document title and description

In the Accessibility panel for the document, you can enter a name and description for your
document for screen readers.
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In the Name text box, enter Trio ZX2004. In the Description text box, enter Corporate
website about the Trio ZX2004. Includes 6 navigation buttons, overview text, and an
animated car.

Provide a title and description for instances

Now that you've provided information about the entire document, you can provide information
about Stage objects included in the document.
Select the Trio Motor Company logo along the top of the Stage. In the Accessibility panel, enter
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Trio Motor Company in the Name text box. Do not enter anything in the Description text box.
Not every instance needs a description, which is read with the title information. If the title
name sufficiently describes the function of the object, then you don't need to include
a description.
With the Accessibility panel still open, select the Dealers button on the Stage.
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Information in the Accessibility panel changes to reflect Accessibility options for the
selected object.
In the Accessibility panel for the Dealers button, you do not need to provide a name in the
Title text box, because the button includes a text label that the screen reader will read. If you
did not want the screen reader to read the text in the button, you could deselect Auto Label
when you set up accessibility for the document.
In the Description text box, enter Links to a web page with information about
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dealers nationwide.
The other buttons also include text, which the screen reader will read aloud; therefore, you do not
need to provide a title. Since the title of the buttons is fairly self-explanatory, there's no need for
you to include descriptions.

Specify that screen readers ignore elements in your document

Screen readers follow a specific order when reading web content. However, when content on the
web page changes, most screen readers will begin reading the web content all over again. This
screen reader feature can be problematic when Flash content contains, for example, animation,
which could cause the screen reader to begin again each time there's a change in the animation.
Fortunately, you can use the Accessibility panel to either deselect Make Object Accessible, so that
the screen reader does not receive accessibility information about the object, or deselect Make
Child Objects Accessible, so that the screen reader does not receive accessibility information
nested within a movie clip. You'll now do the latter so that users will know the web page contains
an animation, and the animation won't cause the screen reader to constantly refresh.
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