This would be great Theodore.
Currently, I personally find 2 aspects of UIA challenging:
1, Knowing which properties and methods need to be used together for a given
situation and the syntax required.
2, Finding functions/syntax that is not included in the official documentation,
but is present in Jaws code.
For example, I've had amazing help from a list member off list, which has
enabled me to make things more efficient and write code that solves problems
that I wouldn't have been able to do previously, but in the below example,
there is a line that isn't included in the official documentation. They told me
they got it from the jaws list a while back. So, it's almost as if there's
aspects to UIA that isn’t covered, and you need to totally understand the
official stuff before looking through jaws code or getting someone else's
working code to find working examples.
Example (the function " CreateRawViewCondition" is not in the official
documentation, which I'm pretty sure is JAWS UIA Script API Documentation.html
):
Object Function TreeWalkerFromCurrentElement ()
Var
Object oUIA = CreateObjectEx ("FreedomSci.UIA", 0,
"UIAScriptAPI.x.manifest"),
Object oElement = oUIA.GetFocusedElement (),
Object oTree = oUIA.CreateTreeWalker (oUIA.CreateRawViewCondition())
OTree.CurrentElement = oElement
Return oTree.CurrentElement
EndFunction,
Best Steve.
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From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On
Behalf Of Theodore Cooke
Sent: 06 October 2021 11:00
To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Good intros to JAWS scripting, accessing highlight
status of text in PDF
Sounds like the people have spoken. Part II on UIA is in order.
I figured out the outline, but got stuck trying to explain UIA. I think I just
need to do an entire post explaining UIA, then another post explaining how to
use UIA with Jaws. I'll try to carve time this month to get at least one part
done.
For those trying to learn UIA, have you read the microsoft documentation?
How much were you able to make sense of, and what confused the hell out of you?
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 10:15 PM <donanderson4550@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes, I would really like to have a jaws script sharing site. I hope
you will pursue this and that you will get some support. I have a few
I would be willing to contribute.
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On
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Sent: Friday, September 10, 2021 8:30 AM
To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Good intros to JAWS scripting, accessing
highlight status of text in PDF
I also found that article really great, and would love to see a part 2
relating to UIA scripting -- I'm not sure there are any good
introductions out there already (but I'd love to be corrected on that
if someone knows different).
While we're on the subject of learning resources, here's a version of
the "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Writing JAWS Scripts"
guide that Kenneth A. Gould wrote. It's over 20 years old now but I
think it's still a useful introduction:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/115gwVTWlDov0mcmkmZ5nl4absmA6WBA-nS
jKaG76
2Jg/edit?usp
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/115gwVTWlDov0mcmkmZ5nl4absmA6WBA-n
SjKaG762Jg/edit?usp>
˙aring
.
There was some discussion late last year about launching a website
where we could share our JAWS scripts in a way that other scripters
could comment on them -- sort of like a wiki. I thought I'd mention
that again now, as I think it could be extremely helpful for people working
with JAWS scripts.
I'd be happy to give some time over to working on a project like that
if other list members liked the idea.
--
Jim Benstead
Assistive technology trainer and consultant
On Thu, 9 Sept 2021 at 15:05, jgonzalezh614
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
This tutorial is great but it would have been awesome if the creator
would have done part 2 as well. Still have not found a good UIA
scripting tutorial.
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Theodore, good article!
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Sent: Wednesday, September 8, 2021 4:20 PM
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Hi,
I really like the information on JAWS scripting. Thanks!
Sincerely,
Mike
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On Behalf Of Snowman
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2020 3:02 PM
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Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Good intros to JAWS scripting, accessing
highlight status of text in PDF
Ted, I did not know this tutorial existed. But, it seems like
people would find it very useful.
I'd like to link to it from my site. Can I use the link you provided?
Or, will this be moving soon.
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Sent: Friday, October 16, 2020 9:36 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Good intros to JAWS scripting, accessing
highlight status of text in PDF
Here's a walk through I wrote on learning jaws scripting. There is a
part II in the works, but since I haven't received any feedback on
part 1 yet, I have left part 2 on the back burner for now.
https://gist.github.com/BeastlyTheos/177004102bafda4b20e9b6e72863d29a?
fbclid˙AR3LNsFC3Ny66yAx8RknBpDEMXnJwa8h9lHj53NMkMMNEwFhd3F4X3WKH1s
On 9/25/20, Csaba à rpádházy-Godo
<arpadhazi68.jawsul@xxxxxxxxx>
fromHi, James,something?
here is the ling:
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2020. 09. 24. 22:53 keltezĂ©ssel, James Benstead Ä‚Ârta:
Hi Csaba,
Thank you, I will continue my work in learning JAWS scripting on
that basis!
I can't find the specific FSDN help file "The Essential JAWS
Scripting Handbook", but I did find the "Basics of Scripting Manual"
at
https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a˙tps%3a%2f%2fsupport.freedo
msc
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anual/01-0_Introduction.htm
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iS KM 3io1Q9Y6W9eEDC31BOqUnj7Nwtfpg,&typoË™> >> Which includes
"General Scripting Concepts", "Reference Guide", and "API Tools".
Are these the correct documents to start with? Or am I missing
____________________
Thanks again!
Jim
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arpadhazi68.jawsul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi James,
of course, JAWS Script language has functions to determine the
colors on the screen. Bot hte foreground & the background. I
recommend you to download FSDN (Freedom Scientific Developer
Network) help file what is "The EssentialJAWS Scripting Handbook".
HTH
Csaba
2020. 09. 24. 14:56 keltezĂ©ssel, James Benstead Ä‚Ârta:
I'm looking to get into JAWS scripting. Are there good onlineto
resources
get me started? I have some experience of coding.JAWS
One specific thing I'd like to be able to access with a script
is the "highlighting status" of any give character in a PDF.
Not highlighting as in "selecting text so that you can then
make it bold or italic", but the sort of highlighting you can
add to a PDF that looks like you've drawn on the document with
a highlighter pen. Is this information available to
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