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Introduction
You can use Flash's multimedia capabilities to create applications appropriate for a variety of abilities and learning styles, but without user control over the audio and video, your applications may conflict with assistive technology (AT), rendering your content inaccessible. To make exciting presentations that include scrolling text, moving characters, slide shows, animations and full-fledged multimedia accessible, you must provide AT users with the ability to control the audio and video.
In this lesson, you will learn why Section 508 requires you to provide audio and video controls, including the importance of allowing users to control animations and automatically updating content, and why you should avoid audio that plays automatically. The technical part of this lesson introduces some approaches to providing accessible audio and video controls. To ensure that the controls you provide are truly accessible, you will need to incorporate additional information provided later in this course, in the following lessons:
- Ensuring Keyboard Accessibility
- Controlling Reading Order and Tab Order
- Maintaining Focus
- Providing Accessible User Interface Controls
Select Next for an example that illustrates the need for video controls.
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