That's the expected behavior. Unfortunately, you can't take control over focus management from the screen reader or force the screen reader to read something. In fact, if you shift focus with ActionScript using Selection.setFocus(), JAWS will ignore the command and try to keep the focus where it was on the page. A JAWS user would probably understand how to refresh the page using Insert + Enter or how to go the top using Page Up.
By the way, it's impressive that you've discovered Microsoft's MSAA tools for debugging your Flash apps. They help a lot! Let me know if you need any more help. -- Michael Jordan Michael(a)majordan.net -----Original Message----- From: adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 5:14 AM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] calling all accessibility gurus Hi list, I've had a search of the archives but can't seem to find answer to this one. I'm just starting a project that requires accessibility from a screen reader. I'm testing Jaws version 4.5 and 7, IE6 and flash player 7 on winXP pro. I'm having trouble creating the most simple working example. I've setup a movie with 2 frames and some textfields on each frame, and a movieclip button to move between the frames. I've specified the tabindexes for all items and setup the accessibility properties for everything as well. When the movie loads, everything works as expected - Jaws reads through the contents of the page. When I move to the next frame Jaws doesn't start reading the content automatically. As the screen had been refreshed I was led to believe that Jaws would start reading the screen again from the top. I checked out what MSSA was seeing with microsofts accessibility explorer and everything seems to be ok. Whilst I'm on the second frame if I use the up and down cursor keys Jaws will read each of my text fields but it seems to start with it's focus at the bottom of the page at around the same point as the button on the previous frame. Is this expected behavior? any help or advice would be very gratefully received. thanks, adam _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
