Entering accessibility information for screen readers

Screen readers read aloud a description of the content, read text, and assist users as they navigate through the user interfaces of traditional applications such as menus, toolbars, dialog boxes, and input text fields.

By default, the following objects are defined as accessible in all Flash documents and are included in the information that Flash Player provides to screen reader software:

Flash Player automatically provides names for static and dynamic text objects, which are simply the contents of the text. For each of the five kinds of accessible objects shown above, you can set descriptive properties for screen readers to read aloud. You can also control how Flash Player decides which objects to expose to screen readers—for example, you can specify that certain accessible objects are not exposed to screen readers at all.