[jawsscripts] Re: JAWS UIA scripting
- From: Bob <temp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:31:15 +0000
John
I dont suppose you have any of those UIA examples you could post?
I am having difficulty with a table that I cant focus inside of.
Thanks
Bob
On 20/10/2014 14:44, John Martyn wrote:
> The UIA approach is much faster and reliable than legacy scripting
> because of many reasons. If theprogram has custom controls, you can find
> out the bounding rectangle of the item, focus it, invoke menus on it,
> and speak text that is normally not visible to OCR. The elements that
> you can detect is far more than jaws can normally see. You can also
> change the tab order or put things into lists. I belive I made the
> google manage scripts source availble in the download, but I'd be happy
> to share some code that will help in the UIA area. I am building a
> website dedicated to JAWS scripting so you can get code samples for UIA
> scripting. I am just really bogged down in work right now so I'll post
> back within the week for code examples that can make an otherwise
> completely inaccessible program work.
> John Martyn
> On 9/24/2014 3:58 AM, Geoff Chapman wrote:
>> So to guide this one back on topic John, Since I kinda guided it off, :),
>> feel like giving us some quick general scripting ideas as to what you were
>> able to use the new jaws 15 UIA support to accomplish, that would've been
>> more difficult/impossible with older tools?
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Andy B." <sonfire11@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 1:19 PM
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Google music manager now accessible
>>
>>
>>> Google's look-a-like for Spotify if I rmember.
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kaveinthran
>>> Pulanthran
>>> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 9:31 PM
>>> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Google music manager now accessible
>>>
>>> hi, bwhat is google music manager used for?
>>>
>>> On 9/22/14, Dale Leavens <dleavens@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> And blind people seem to think that a google autonomous vehicle will
>>>> be of some value to them!
>>>>
>>>> Dale Leavens.
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 2:09 AM
>>>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Google music manager now accessible
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Wow John. your certainly a very busy beaver Scripter eh!
>>>>> Thanks for allowing us to check out these scripts. I don't have jaws
>>>>> 15 myself so can't at this stage.
>>>>> But, I notice on your site you mentioned the Login screen is totally
>>>>> inaccessible, to the point of needing sighted assistance to even log in!
>>>>> Hooly dooly! Is that for real?
>>>>> In this day and age, with Ray Kirzwiel hanging around google
>>>>> somewhere and everything, How on earth could Google still,
>>>>> manufacture an app that had a totally inaccessible login screen to
>>>>> the point it needed sighted assistance even to initially utilize the
>>>>> jolly thing?
>>>>> <sigh>. Microsoft all over again eh. DoubleSigh.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>>> Got any line in to their development cycle on any of their products?
>>>>> Including their browser online offering, which lacks some very basic
>>>>> keyboard navigation, like being able to click on the 3 circles
>>>>> thinggy to the right of the currently playing song, in order to
>>>>> actually be taken to the google play store to buy it? even that is
>>>>> not accessible from the keyboard!
>>>>> crazy crazy people!
>>>>> Nor, by the way, is the Play button, to preview tunes on the Google
>>>>> play store directly. The buy button for each tune is a
>>>>> normal/accessible button, but, the preview/play button is not, and
>>>>> only appears apparently upon mouse hovering over the name of the tune
>>>>> you wish to preview.
>>>>> just crazy short-sightedness! I've started a case with them about
>>>>> this browser-based Music all Access service anywayz, and hope they'll
>>>>> do something in their next release, as I'm impressed with it
>>>>> functionally compared to the others, in that it allows unlimited skips
>>>>> per hour.
>>>>> Great
>>>>> for tooling through stuff fast when looking for particular things.
>>>>>
>>>>> Correct me if I'm wrong on this John, but, in case anyone else upon
>>>>> the back of John's announcement, wishes to dive into trying the
>>>>> Google offering of the associated music subscription service, Google
>>>>> play music all Access, -
>>>>>
>>>>> a
>>>>> lovely short marketing name for it eh, - I'm told by google last
>>>>> week, that, unlike apparently in Microsoft's latest music
>>>>> subscription offering, (which by the way only works under windows
>>>>> 8/8.1 apparently,) The google play music all access thing, even with
>>>>> google music manager, won't let you download any of the subscription
>>>>> music, i.e. stuff that you haven't actually purchased, to
>>>>> organize/play when offline, on your PC . But, only on your android
>>>>> or iDevice or tablet etc.
>>>>> That absolutely was not clear to me when trying to ascertain this,
>>>>> from their promotional stuff online, which appears of course as if it
>>>>> will do everything you could possibly want, and more! rah rah rah!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "John Martyn" <johnrobertmartyn@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
>>>>> <blindtunesbeta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <spotifyblindbeta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
>>>>> <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 4:02 AM
>>>>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Google music manager now accessible
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>> I just completed the scripts for the Google music manager. The
>>>>>> scripts are free. If you want to manage all your music in the cloud
>>>>>> and have your itunes stuff there, you can download the scripts at
>>>>>> www.DoItBlind.com Enjoy!
>>>>>> John Martyn
>>>>>> __________
>>>>> .
>>>>>> View the list's information and change your settings at
>>>>>> //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts
>>>>>>
>>>>> __________
>>>>>
>>>>> View the list's information and change your settings at
>>>>> //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts
>>>>>
>>>> __________
>>>>
>>>> View the list's information and change your settings at
>>>> //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts
>>>>
>>>>
>>> __________
>>>
>>> View the list's information and change your settings at
>>> //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts
>>>
>>>
>>> __________�
>>>
>>> View the list's information and change your settings at
>>> //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts
>>>
>>>
>> __________�
>>
>> View the list's information and change your settings at
>> //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts
>>
>>
> __________�
>
> View the list's information and change your settings at
> //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts
>
__________�
View the list's information and change your settings at
//www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts
Other related posts:
