Reading the slide notes

Here's the deal; Running 7.01.237 on Win 7 Pro. Have to create a project that will read the slide notes (using a screen reader) first, simply because this is the only text equivalent approach the customer will accept. The default setting reads the slide notes first, but when the user uses a tab/enter or keyboard shortcut to advance to the next slide, the focus stays at the point of the action, rather than going back to the beginning of the new slide and reading the slide notes.
What I need is a button that goes the next slide and starts at the beginning of that slide, not from the location of the button (since, by default, anything interactive on the screen is going to be presented AFTER the slide notes). Any ideas?
Justenuf

What I've learned: Using the tab/enter function to go through the lesson, the tab focus remains on the last interactive object you selected and will reactivate when you select tab. For example, If I use the playbar or navigation buttons, when I select "Next" or "Forward", the next screen will appear, and the tab will be focused on the "Next" button, meaning the user must either "shift+G" or "arrow up" key back to the "flash start" location, then enter using "arrow down" to hear the slide notes. This is awkward at best, and not the best design.
My current workaround is a twist on the old "D" link structure. I place two extra navigation keys in the top left corner of the slide that allow the user to navigate to the next slide and to the previous slide. These buttons are visible, but very small. I set the tab order on the slide, making the "go to next slide button" first, and the "go to previous slide" button second. Instead of alt text that simply states "select this button to go to the next slide", I've inserted the content of the slide in the accessibility name area for the "next" button. The user can now tab into the slide, hear the content, select enter (or a yet to be determined short cut key combination - JAWS has 24 pages of shortcuts it already assigns) to go to the next slide and then select tab to hear the accessibility name/slide notes for that slide. The visually impaired user now has the ability to navigate the course in a similar fashion to the sighted user, and is given the option to arrow key/tab through the slide (more on reading order tricks some other time) if desired.
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