Accessibility Requirement

I've added accessibility features to my interaction that follow the Best Practices for Accessible Flash Design guidelines provided by Macromedia/Adobe.

The main thing I've done is to add a name, description, shortcut key, and tab index to each button and movie clip in my project. For most of these, I've simply chosen the item on my artboard and edited info in the Accessibility window. For all of the counties, I've created a separate function that adds accessibility options. This uses actionscript to add a name to each button and caption as it is initiated. This is helpful in that I don't need to go into the Accessibility panel for all 159 counties. So, when someone rolls over a county button, a text reader should read "whatever county" and then read only the number and unit included in the caption.

I've also used actionscript to add accessibility options to the form components used. Components have accessibility features included but the programmer has to enable the options.