RE: Determining whether a window supports accessibility
RE: Determining whether a window supports accessibility
- Subject: RE: Determining whether a window supports accessibility
- From: David Niemeijer <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 19:44:13 +0200
At 10:39 -0400 2/6/05, Chen Wang wrote:
If you check the display of UIElement Inspector line by line, you will
find an item "AXChildren", it tells you how many children behind the
current element. In some case, UIElement Inspector could not discover
all children for you.
Another better but non-free tool is UI Browser. It can explore the whole
hierarchy of UI elements. One extremely helpful feature is that it can
highlight the selected UI element, so that you can see where it is on
the GUI. The trail version can be downloaded from:
http://www.prefab.com/uibrowser/
Thanks for your reply. I use UI Browser so I can easily see what is
exposed and what is not. I was just hoping there was some simple rule
of thumb to guide this issue. the problem with looking at the
children is that even a window that is not fully accessible has
certain children. I guess it was just wishful thinking hoping that
there was some golden rule to figure out if all "display areas" of a
window where accessible or not.
However, Ms Word is not fully "access-enabled" on Mac. To access its
text area, you have to work with Microsoft Office Object Model by using
AppleScript.
Yes, for Word that is an option, but for many other apps it is not.
Another bed news is: some product from Apple itself, iWork
for example, also does not fully implement AX features.
If that is the case, did you already file bugs on this? What
particular features are you referring too?
Thanks,
david.
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