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From: Friedel, Martin James - FRIMJ001
Date: Apr 9, 2006 2:20AM


I'm currently working on some research into Flash accessibility and have found a bizarre problem when combining content built in Flash 8 (published as 7). When I tab through the movie in Internet Explorer with JAWS (4.51) not running, the tab order is as programmed (every instance has a tab index set, and there are no static text instances). But when JAWS is turned on, the tab order is thrown out the window and entire instances are not accessible when using the tab key.

Has anyone experienced this issue, and has a possible solution?

Cheers,
Marty