[jawsscripts] FW: FW: Re: How do you get the Firefox DOM forscripting?

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Subject: Re: FW: [jawsscripts] Re: How do you get the Firefox DOM
forscripting?

Jamal,
The answer is "you don't" or rather "you can't".
Vic

Jamal Mazrui wrote:
> If anyone has answers, I'd be glad to forward them to the JAWS
scripting list.
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> Jamal
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> [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bryan Garaventa
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> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: How do you get the Firefox DOM for
scripting?
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> I think I understand the mechanics behind the behavior, which relies
on an MSAA object instead of a traditional DOM.
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> I'm not sure how to get a running instance of this though. Would
getting the current MSAA object at point using the Firefox main window
handle return this MSAA object?
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> Would it then be possible to use the various method calls at=20
> http://www.mozilla.org/access/architecture
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> It isn't clear to me if it's possible to read an ID attribute from any
of these MSAA object nodes however, which is what I would really need to
scan for. Is this possible within the JAWS scripting environment when
scanning the Firefox MSAA object tree?
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> From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 5:12 PM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: How do you get the Firefox DOM for
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>> Bryan:
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>> Check out
>> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Accessibility:Architecture
>> & see if it helps, ok?
>>
>> On 7/7/08, Bryan Garaventa <bgaraventa11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Is there any JAWS script function that returns a document object for

>>> Firefox? The IE DOM is easy to get using IEGetCurrentDocument, but=20
>>> nothing appears to work in Firefox for the same purpose.
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