Highlight on Playback bar

Hi Folks
Is there a way to remove/hide the yellow highlight on
Playback when TAB is used. I can change/hide the glow when mouse is
over buttons when using an SWF . But TAB highlights yellow around
buttons and moves to next box each time used and it bothers some
people( one section requires them to use TAB several times). Any
help is much appreciated.
Thanks
Andrew

The yellow highlight you see is the indicator of focus on the
elements of the playback controls. The trick is to keep focus on
the SWF itself (not the playbar) and that really can be a trick
indeed.
Try forcing the user to "click" the movie "stage" to bring
focus to the stage (movie) before the TAB action. That might help.
A personal aside: I seldom if ever use the TAB key as the
action item in my movies for this very reason. Since the movie is
normally displayed in a browser, the first destination of the TAB
key of usually the browser's address-bar, and immediately the
end-user is confused by the issue. Clicking on the movie itself can
help, but as I said, I just prefer to avoid the issue (I'm
repeating myself, aren't I? -grin-).
Have a great day Andrew!
.

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