[jawsscripts] Re: How do you get the Firefox DOM for scripting?

Hi guys,
No, you cannot obtain a pointer to Firefox DOM or MSAA structure from 
JAWS scripting language. I filed a bug on this some time ago and Aaron 
Leventhal knows about this.
Unfortunately, we don't know when this will get resolved as this will 
require changes in the way Firefox exposes its interfaces to the outside 
world.

Bryan Garaventa wrote:
> I think I understand the mechanics behind the behavior, which relies on an 
> MSAA object instead of a traditional DOM.
> 
> 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?
> 
> Would it then be possible to use the various method calls at
> http://www.mozilla.org/access/architecture
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 5:12 PM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: How do you get the Firefox DOM for scripting?
> 
> 
>> Bryan:
>>
>> 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 
>>> nothing
>>> appears to work in Firefox for the same purpose.
>>>
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