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System.capabilities.hasAccessibility

Description

In Flash Player 6, the Boolean hasAccessibility property is true if the Player supports accessibility. At the time of this writing, only the Windows ActiveX version of Flash Player 6 supports accessibility (via Microsoft Active Accessibility, MSAA). MSAA is a Microsoft API that exposes an application's user interface elements to screen readers and other accessibility aids, such as GW Micro's Window-Eyes (http://www.gwmicro.com).

Movies that rely on accessibility aids should check that both hasAccessibility and Accessibility.isActive( ) return true before sending any accessibility information. The hasAccessibility property tells us that the Player supports accessibility, but the Accessibility.isActive( ) method tells us that a screen reader is actually running and communicating with the Flash Player.

For more information on MSAA, see:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/msaa/msaastart_9w2t.asp

See the Accessibility object for more details on accessibility.

The corresponding server string for hasAccessibility is ACC, with possible values of t (true) and f (false). See capabilities.serverString for details.

See Also

The Accessibility object

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