Webmaster Forum / Flash / General Flash Topics / May 2006

OK
I have a simple movie (published to FP7, AS2.0) with just two buttons in it.
The have their tabIndexes set to 1 and 2 respectively. When I publish my
movie like this, I can tab around perfectly.

As soon as I add a Macromedia component (e.g. ComboBox, CheckBox) to the
library (even if it's not placed on the stage) I can no longer tab to
the two buttons. I can no longer tab around at all in flash in fact - it
seems to have completely disabled this functionality.

Even if I follow what the documentation says and add the appropriate
line of 'component accessibility' code e.g.
mx.accessibility.CheckBoxAccImpl.enableAccessibility();
this makes absolutely no difference.

As far as I can tell, this seems to be down to the bug that disables
accessibility when you set _focusrect to false - the Macromedia
components appear to be implementing their own focus rectangle, which
means that they switch off the global _focusrect property, which then
disables keyboard navigation via TAB.

Anyone know of a workaround for this?

I am seriously considering giving up attempting to make flash accessible
- it just seems to involve insane amounts of work!

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