508 tabbing and textAreas

programming flash
1

ok, so one developer made a spaghetti mess of and app, that got handed over to me to make 508 compliant, now im the type of guy that shuns components cause i prefer to build everything from scratch to keep better control.
however ever this app is full of text components and when i try to tab around it will only jump back and forth from text components.
how the heck can i disable the tabbing on the text components so that my structured tab order isn’t sabotaged?:crying:

to save time and guess i have already tried (say the components name=txt)

txt.enabled = false;
txt.tabEnabled = false;
txt.focusEnabled = false;

if some one out there could help me out with this that’s like at least +10 points

2

so, i took a while but i found out what the problem was.
if you have a component it will override the focus manager, and it’s kind of a pain but here is how i worked around this one.

<say im using two i want the focus manager to recognize my two mc and there is a component on the stage>

mc_1.tabEnabled = true;
mc_2.tabEnabled = true;

addEventListener(FocusEvent.KEY_FOCUS_CHANGE, onKeyFocusChange);

function onKeyFocusChange(e:FocusEvent):void
{
var focusObj = e.target
focusObj.focusRect = true;
}

kind of a weird problem but hope this might help some one down the line :beer2: