As a Macromedia Director MX 2004 author, you might want to provide ways for computer users with disabilities to experience the movies that you create. Director includes accessibility features that let you do this. By using these features, you can make existing and new movies accessible to users who have hearing, visual, or mobility impairment.
With scripts and behaviors, you can add text-to-speech capability to your movies. This lets visually impaired users hear the text in your movie read aloud by the computer. You can provide captioning to help users with hearing impairment experience the audio portions of your movies. Finally, you can enable your movies to be navigated with the keyboard instead of a mouse, which benefits users with certain kinds of mobility impairment.
If you work on projects sponsored by the U.S. government, you might be required to follow government guidelines for providing accessibility to disabled users.
You add accessibility to your Director movies by using the included accessibility behaviors or special script methods. The text-to-speech behaviors and scripting require the Speech Xtra. If you use text-to-speech in your movie, you must add the Speech Xtra to your movie's Xtra extensions list. This is discussed in detail in this chapter.
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