Creating Accessible Applications

Adobe Flex 2 provides accessibility features that let you create applications that are accessible to users with disabilities. As you design accessible applications, consider how your users will interact with the content. Visually impaired users, for example, might rely on assistive technology such as screen readers, which provide an audio version of screen content, or screen magnifiers, which display a small portion of the screen at a larger size, effectively reducing the visible screen area. Hearing-impaired users might read text and captions in the document in place of audio content. Other considerations arise for users with mobility or cognitive impairments.

This topic describes the accessibility features of Flex.

Contents

Accessibility overview
About screen reader technology
Configuring Flex applications for accessibility
Accessible components and containers
Creating tab order and reading order
Creating accessibility with ActionScript
Accessibility for hearing-impaired users
Testing accessible content

Flex 2.01

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