Overview

With knowledge of a few design techniques and accessibility features in Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004, 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, as you accomplish the following tasks:

• Specify that your document be accessible to screen readers
• Provide a document title and description
• Provide a title and description for document instances
• Specify that screen readers ignore elements in your document
• Change static text to dynamic text for accessibility
• Control the order in which users navigate with the Tab key
• Control the reading order with ActionScript

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 Help.