Adobe Director includes features that let you make existing and new movies accessible to users who have hearing, visual, or mobility impairment.

The U.S. government has stated that multimedia created for the purpose of fulfilling a government contract must be made accessible to computer users with disabilities. The government requirements include text-to-speech, captioning, and keyboard navigation features. The full text of the government requirements is available at www.section508.gov/.

You make your Director movies accessible by using behaviors or writing custom scripts. Director includes several behaviors that let you easily add text-to-speech, captioning, and keyboard navigation to your movies with simple drag-and-drop procedures. To have more control over accessibility implementation, you can write custom scripts that use the text-to-speech methods. For more information about text-to-speech script, see Accessibility scripting with Lingo or JavaScript syntax.

After implementing the accessibility features, you must deploy the movies in a way that ensures that the features will work for users. For deployment information, see Deploying accessible movies.