Movieclip accessibility

HI,
I am facing a problem with accessibility of my application.
I have a movieclip on stage. It's accessibility name is
"movieClip 1" and it has a simpe code on press event of it.
This works fine.
But when I load an image on it:
mc1.loadMovie("cat.jpg");
Browser takes it as unlabeled button.
Can anyone tell me why its taking it as unlabled ?
Thanks...

I’ve duplicated what you are trying to do and have not
found it a problem.
What I think your problem is:
You have not named a movieclip "mc1" in the properties box.
Flash needs to know "what, where and when" when it comes to
importing anything into something.
"Unlabeled" I’ve not come across this myself but I
think that this means the place holder "mc1" does not exists.
That’s what makes me think you have not named the movieclip
you are trying to load the image into.
I hope this helps.

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