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About button and text field labeling

You can assign labels to buttons and input text fields so that they are identified appropriately by the screen reader. Often, an appropriate name for a button or input text field already appears in your movie, as a text label that you have placed on top of, inside, or near a button or text field. When the Flash Player discovers an arrangement like this, it will assume that the text object is a label for the button or text field.

You can turn off automatic labeling if it is inconvenient. See Specifying advanced accessibility options.

If you provide a name for an object, any text that would normally serve as a label is instead exposed to screen readers as a text object. This can cause confusion for users, because a screen reader reads both the text object and the name you have provided. In such cases you can hide the text object from the screen reader.