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I have a flex application that has to be accessible (keyboard navigation, screen readers, etc.). My problem is that the right click menu (context menu) that is displayed when you right click on the application is not available without using the mouse on certain browsers. I'm talking about the menu key on windows keyboards or the shift+F10 combination that triggers the context menu.

On IE everything seems to be working fine, but on Firefox or Chrome the menu key or shift+F10 have no effect. Try a video on youtube for example to see that it doesn't work when the flash player is selected.

Google is a bit hard to use for this problem (menu key, flash, flex, accessibility, right click menu) and I did not found any resource in this matter.

If you know how to enable the right click menu on all browsers or if you have any information please share. Thanks!

later edit: It seems that in IE, when pressing the menu key, the flash application acts as if the cursor was placed in the middle. So no matter what object is highlighted, the right click menu will be tailored to the center of the application.