I'm a blind developer who is considering learning Flex. According to this link when you compile a flex application with the defaults it isn't accessible to screen readers. Why is this, are there performance issues I should be aware of, or was this just an arbitrary choice Adobe made?
View 2 RepliesWhats the deal with cs5? it had an inbuilt pre-loader which overrides any as3 pre-loading script - by loading the entire swf before even looking at frame 1. whats the situation here? Can the default pre-loader be customized or turned off?
View 1 RepliesThe Accessibility best practices for Flex page from Adobe website list four strategies to enable accessibility :
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I test if the accessibility is enabled by checking the value of Accessibility.active, which is always false in my sample application containing only a datagrid and some buttons, using the four above strategies. As I'm new to Flex, I don't really know where else I could search to enable it, and no, Accessibility.active = true; isn't a solution, as it's a read-only property
I have a flash based Air application I'm trying to add keyboard accessibility to (not flex).
My problem is that MouseEvent.CLICK is not being broadcast when tabbing to and hitting enter on an interactive movieclip.
The yellow hilight rectangle shows up around the movieclip fine, and the same code works perfectly if it's compiled into a non-air swf.
Is there some difference in keyboard interaction when compiling to Air?
I need to make a small app accessible to screen reader.I'm managing to make buttons accessible, but I would also like to have a section of text accessible by screen readers so that users can hear what the text says.
I can't seem to work out how to do this.. I've tried various text controls and set them as focusEnabled, tabEnabled, i've set the accessibility* attributes too but it never seems to work, I cannot tab to a text label and hear the content.
I'm honestly a little new to accessiblity in Flex so apologies if i'm missing something obvious.
How to add accessibility requirements to a swf created using mxml+flex sdk? I have a few buttons and textfields in the swf and the impaired user should be able to increase the button size and text size while using the swf. I've looked into flex built-in accessibility features, but its not what I require. I want to run the swf standalone without a browser, so preferably change the size with a visual widget.
View 1 RepliesI have an application written with Flex 3.6 and when I create a modal popup dialog, the buttons and text on that popup do not work correctly with the Accessibility properties that I have defined. The app is compiled with the accessibility flag. I build a simple app to test demonstrate the problem.
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In AS2,suppose there is an input text field in frame 1 with var name ONE,its text content can be accessed in say frame 2 even though that textfield is not in stage.But in AS3,I think this is not possible right?So,how can I access instances or movieclips or variables at different frames?Do I have to make a class and make const vars?If so,If I have some irregular shape,say a man as movieclip,how can I add it to the global class?
View 5 RepliesI need to add accessibility to a flash program which I have created. I can make the screen reader state all of the different buttons and at the top level of a combobox. However if I traverse the combobox none of the items are mentioned by the screenreader. I've tried various things down to trying to set the accessibility properties of the combobox items as though they were an array cb[0].accessibilityProperties = accessProps0; but nothing seems to work.
View 2 RepliesI'm making a modular site, that loads in external swfs that need to have decent screen reader names for each of the buttons.
The shell swf is set up to work with Thunder and NVDA screen readers by creating an AccessiblityProperties instance and assigning it to the relevent display objects then calling Accessibility.updateProperties( ) ; This method works in the main swf, but when used in the loaded swf it's not picking up the updated accessibility properties of the buttons, even though Accessibiltiyy.updateProperties( ) ; as been called again.
I need to load a flash-game inside the flash site. The goal is to get information about the winners' score to publish it on the site. The problem is that the game was developed by third-party programmers, so I have no idea if I can get access to any variable of the loaded swf (game) to get the highscores.
How can I retrieve the data from loaded swf?
I need to put an image up of a television and have a video of something looping in the center the image of the tv would be just that and a player would really be under the image playing the video.
View 5 Repliesi've just opened my fla file and most of the images have turned red.
View 6 RepliesI'm having trouble accessing the variables of my main class from other class objects UNLESS the objects are extensions of the Sprite or MovieClip class, have been added to the display list as a child of the main class instance, and I am able to use the this.parent.variable syntax. What I'm wondering is, isn't it possible to have a simple Object declared and instantiated, residing in memory and able to access another object's properties, without it being a part of the display list? Am I doing something stupid here?
Let me explain the code a bit in case it's a design flaw on my part. (I'm still learning AS3 and am not completely fluent with it yet).
I have a project with about 15 custom classes. There are no frame scripts in the .fla file. I am using it basically as a library only. The document class (let's call it Calculator for this example) extends the Sprite class and specifies the properties for the SWF dynamically. All other classes are instantiated from this main class. I have a bunch of variables that I want accessible to the different classes, so to keep them in a central location, I have declared them in the Calculator class, and am trying to access them from the other object instances.
(It should be noted that there ARE animations that need to play at times, so I'm assuming I can't NOT extend the MovieClip or Sprite class when creating the document class.
For this example, let's say there's another class called XMLLoader.as, whos instance was created from within the Calculator class, that needs some information stored in the Calculator class' variables. Incredibly simplified code for the two classes might look like this:
Document class:
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package {
import flash.display.*;
public class Calculator extends Sprite {
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So, in the code above (I've bolded the most important lines in red), the only way I have been successful at accessing the variables declared in the document class from other classes is to extend the MovieClip or Sprite class when I create the custom class, add the object as a child of the document class (Calculator), create a generic variable cast to the datatype of the document class, and use it to access the variables.
This seems really excessive to me, and I'm wondering if it is, or if this is simply a limitation of ActionScript. Does, for instance, a URLLoader object actually need to be associated with a MovieClip included in the display list in order to access internal variables of the main class object? Is it me, or is that really convoluted? Shouldn't it be able to exist in memory separate of the display list and still have access to varibles declared from the main timeline (i.e. the document class in this case)? Is there no other syntax for accessing these elements? Have I done something limiting with how I've designed this or declared the variables?
I have figured out how to add tabs to text by makinginvisible buttons and using the accessibility panel, but haven'tbeen able to get access keys to work (there is a place to add theshortcut on this panel). I have read that I need to enter somethinglike "Control+I" in the field for shortcut, but I don't know whatcode to add to the frame to get it to work.
View 1 RepliesCan you tab into CS3 Playback components or control them with keyboard commands in a regular (non screenreader) browser like IE? If not, can you in CS4? I believe that all screen readers can control Flash playback now, correct? But I have a higher up who wants it to be keyboard controlled as well.
View 4 RepliesJust finished our new site which is full screen Flash effort (link in my signature if you're interested), now I would really like to implement some accessibility features, bookmarking, history etc.The whole site has a central navController function through which nav requests pass which I've developed with this in mind, and I've got a vague idea of how to do this using invisible frames and passing variables through FlashVars but is there any consensus on what is the absolute best way of doing this? The new Attik site is a good example of what I want to achieve [url]
View 4 RepliesI have been working on a script for weeks now and had a problem saving the file so i tried saving it to another location when i re-opened the file my actionscript code which was in english has gone and been replaced by what looks like is Chinese or Korean ?
View 1 RepliesI need to add accessibility to a flash program which I have created. I can make the screen reader state all of the different buttons and at the top level of a combobox. However if I traverse the combobox none of the items are mentioned by the screenreader. I've tried various things down to trying to set the accessibility properties of the combobox items as though they were an array
cb[0].accessibilityProperties = accessProps0; but nothing seems to work.
I have a Flash movie (.swf) file embedded within a webpage.I am looking to have an image display if the user does not have Flash installed or has it turned off.
View 3 RepliesI'm rather wet to AS3, and have been working on developing a site that can deal with a lot of content sections. Ignoring the fact that I haven't figured out button arrays yet, I was hoping to get some help on an issue I can't get past.
I've got a series of content movieclips which I'm controlling with menu buttons. As you can see below, they turn visible/invisible by clicking the menu buttons.
However, I can't seem to find a solution to reload the movieclips once a different menu button is selected, so each section stays forever in its previously "played" state when the button is clicked again. Is there a way to get the "content_section" movieclips to re-load or re-set once another navigation button is pressed?
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I started an animation in flash recently and the autosave feature was turned on. I had a good animation, but decided to play around with it a bit. After a little while, I decided to call it a night and exited the program making sure NOT to save my work. Upon opening that file the next time, I come to find out that Flash has autosaved my file while I was playing around. Now I have a worthless animation, and have to start from scratch. Is there any way to revert to a previous save, or autosave at this point, or am I about to do a lot of work again?
View 3 RepliesThe point of all this code is to meet 508(c) requirements for an online course I'm building. Texas law stipulates that all images be expandable�which is to say that if you click on the image that it will fill the screen�and I am loathe to build timelines for every image to expand them.
Everything works reasonably well until I add the last line within the deflateThis function. With the addition of that last line, the one that turns the eventListener back on, the sprite behaves as if the removeChild commands aren't there, and the damn thing won't work. When I remove the last line the sprite behaves properly, but the eventListener is now turned off.
Here's what's what: -square is a alpha reduced layer at z level 0 to reduce the distraction of the stage. -closeBtn is an AS instantiated btn that closes the sprite when the user is done looking at it.
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import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import fl.motion.MotionEvent;
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for some reason my first attempt to post this didn't work so i will try again, and do it better this time... I would like to have a flash intro that then turns into the header/banner (size wise) with my (html) site loading below it. I'm not sure if this is possible or how to go about it, the idea is that it looks very fluid and slick.
View 4 RepliesHow do I create and control a line of text that i turned into a button. I want to have a selected state built into the button. is that possible? Previously I created a light next to the text that changes color or highlights when the button had been selected, but I would like the text to change color when it is selected and have script that I can use to reset the button state when another button is selected.
Current button:
Actionscript Code:
S1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,click_S1);
function click_S1(evt:Event):void {
Truck.gotoAndStop(16);}
I'm having difficulties with a game that I am making. Essentially it is a drag and drop game where you dress a doll. i have my doll on the stage and I have a pair of pants that I am trying to drag and drop onto her. I have turned these pants into a symbol called pants_mc, I have also gien them an instance name of pants_mc.
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It appears that the flash variables are not accessible in Chrome when Javascript is turned off. Having said that, Youtube seem to work fine, when I test other sites like www.nhs.uk it does not seem to work, nor does mine.
I am using the most recent version of Chrome on Windows. Is there anything special that I need to target Chrome, how do I resolve this issue ?
however I restructured my folders and now my .fla is in the /src/ with my MainApp.as ( Document class ) then MainApp creates a new instance of a class that is in /src/blah/blah/deep/When this new as class is created it has a few buttons on it that are declared in the .fla as instance variables.I have turned off automatically declare stage instances.and declare it in my class like so.[code].....
View 7 Repliesim having some problems pushing the two vars below into a timerupdate function while trying to stop them turning into NANs.
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vx=2.3;
vy=1.3;
//they are declared private
Im passing 2 floats(vx, vy) into a class, then running a function called
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update(e:TimerEvent){
trace("Update:",this.x, this.y ,vx, vy, );
this.x+=vx;
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Why By default Flex does not come-up with Deeplinking. we need to write separate code to achieve this.
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