Adobe Flash Professional CC 2014 v.13.0 - Manual (Page 940)

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Important: If two or more objects have the same tab index in any given frame, Flash Professional follows the order in which the objects
were placed on the Stage.
1. Select the object in which to assign a tab order.
2. Select Window > Other Panels > Accessibility.
3. If you’re providing an index for the selected object only, in the Tab Index text field, enter a positive integer (up to 65535) that reflects the
order in which the selected object should receive focus.
4. To view a tab order, select View > Show Tab Order. Tab index numbers for individual objects appear in the upper-left corner of the object.
Tab index numbers
Note: Tab indexes created with ActionScript code do not appear on the Stage when the Show Tab Order option is enabled.
Specifying advanced accessibility options for screen readers
Turn off automatic labeling and specify an object name for screen readers
1. On the Stage, select the button or input text field for which you want to control labeling.
2. Select Window > Other Panels > Accessibility.
3. Select Make Object Accessible (the default setting).
4. Enter a name for the object. The name is read as the label for the button or text field.
5. To turn off accessibility for the automatic label (and hide it from screen readers), select the text object on the Stage.
6. If the text object is static text, convert it to dynamic text (in the Property inspector, select Text type > Dynamic Text).
7. Deselect Make Object Accessible.
Hide an object from the screen reader
You can hide a selected object from screen readers, and you can decide to hide accessible objects that are contained inside a movie clip or Flash
Professional application and expose only the movie clip or Flash Professional application to screen readers.
Note: Only hide objects that are repetitive or convey no content.
When an object is hidden, the screen reader ignores the object.
1. On the Stage, select the button or input text field to hide from the screen reader.
2. Select Window > Other Panels > Accessibility.
3. In the Accessibility panel, do one of the following:
If the object is a movie clip, button, text field, or another object, deselect Make Object Accessible.
If the object is the child of a movie clip, deselect Make Child Objects Accessible.
Create a keyboard shortcut to an object for screen readers
You can create a keyboard shortcut for an object, such as a button, so users can navigate to it without listening to the contents of an entire page.
For example, you can create a keyboard shortcut to a menu, a toolbar, the next page, or a submit button.
To create a keyboard shortcut, write ActionScript code for an object. If you provide a keyboard shortcut for an input text field or button, you must
also use the ActionScript Key class to detect the key the user presses during Flash Professional content playback. See Key in the ActionScript 2.0
Language Reference. See Capturing keypresses in Learning ActionScript 2.0 in Adobe Flash at
www.adobe.com/go/learn_cs5_learningas2_en .
Select the object and add the name of the keyboard shortcut to the Accessibility panel so the screen reader can read it.
Test your Flash Professional content with multiple screen readers. Keyboard shortcut functionality also depends on the screen reader software
used. The key combination Control+F, for example, is a reserved keystroke for both the browser and the screen reader. The screen reader
reserves the arrow keys. Generally, you can use the 0 to 9 keys on the keyboard for keyboard shortcuts, however, screen readers increasingly use
even these keys.
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