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Specifying basic accessibility

The most important step you can take to make your Flash movies accessible to screen readers is to make sure that every accessible object in your movie has a name. Screen readers identify objects by reading their names aloud. When accessible objects don't have names, screen readers say something generic, such as "Button." This can be confusing for screen reader users.

The Flash Player automatically provides names for static and dynamic text objects. The names of these objects are simply the contents of the text. Thus, you don't need to provide names for text objects—they name themselves automatically. The most important task in accessible Flash authoring is to provide names for buttons and input text fields.