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Creating Accessible Components in Flash and Flex (Part 2)

In this article, I’ll go over the steps needed to enable accessibility for a custom component. While it takes a bit of getting used to, I think you’ll find that enabling accessibility for your components is not only beneficial to the many users who would like to interact with your component, but helps you to fine-tune and further enhance your components in general. To enable use with screen readers, follow these three (simple?) steps:

1. Determine object role
2. Create the Accessibility Implementation class for component
3. Add accessibility tie-ins to component class
   a) Create a placeholder for the static createAccessibilityImplementation() method
   b) Override initializeAccessibility() method
   c) (Flex only) Add AccessibilityClass metadata

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