[jawsscripts] Re: Help with DOM traversing?
- From: "Donald Marang" <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:08:20 -0400
I got your answer, at least partially. Internet Explorer uses <object> tags
while Firefox and the rest of the world use the <embed> tag! Try:
let embeds = dom.getElementsByTagName("object")
I remember putting examples of embedded Flash objects together when I was
playing around with Flash accessibility last year. To properly code the
Flash page I had to write almost duplicate code for embed and object tags to
support all browsers. I included the code below. If this page works in
both IE and Firefox, they must be checking which browser is running to
generating the appropriate tags.
I currently do not have BX installed. When I attempted to install a copy I
had around, it claimed my JAWS installation was corrupted. I have had
something wrong with my main account for months. I have had to revert to
version 10.0.512. I have not used BX to explore the DOM. Is doing this
obvious? It is explained in the documentation? Are there any slick tricks
or hints?
--- Start off Flash HTML code
<object width="425" height="344">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/G07tK-5Vj-w&hl=en&fs=1";>
</param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<embed
src="http://www.youtube.com/v/G07tK-5Vj-w&hl=en&fs=1";
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425"
height="344"></embed></object>
Don Marang
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Garaventa" <bgaraventa11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 2:47 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Help with DOM traversing?
> No, the home page has them, they are dynamically added though, so you
> won't
> see them in the source.
>
> If you run the sample code though, you should hear 30 for the param tags,
> and 0 for the embed tags. If you use BX, you can capture the live DOM and
> see the dynamically added tags then.
>
> Thanks for the input, I may be able to find a work around, but it would be
> good to know why this method works on some elements, but not others.
> It's a bit strange.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donald Marang" <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 10:01 AM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Help with DOM traversing?
>
>
>> Hi Brian,
>>
>> I went to that site and searched the HTML source for those Tags. I could
>> not find any instances of either. Do you need to log in before you will
>> get
>> a page with embeds?
>>
>> I am still attempting to get similar JavaScript calls to create
>> collections
>> for edit boxes and buttons. I have not been completely successful yet.
>> Apparently, these elements are not as simple as links, which I can
>> traverse
>> well. Does capitalization of the tag matter? I know HTML standards
>> prefer
>> all caps, but is not case sensitive. JavaScript seems to prefer all
>> lower
>> case. My results in my tests are inconclusive yet. Perhaps, because I
>> have
>> too many variables in the equation (unknown conditions, not script
>> variables).
>>
>> Don Marang
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bryan Garaventa" <bgaraventa11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 3:56 AM
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Help with DOM traversing?
>>
>>
>>> Any JAWS scripters know what the problem with this script is? For some
>>> reason, I can't get an array of embed tags, though other tags work
>>> fine...
>>>
>>> var object params, object embeds, object dom, int count
>>> let dom = IEGetCurrentDocument ()
>>>
>>> ; The following returns the correct array
>>>
>>> let params = dom.getElementsByTagName("param")
>>> let count = params.length
>>> SayInteger (count) ; Shows correct number of param tags
>>>
>>> ; Yet the following does not work, even though the syntax is the same
>>> let embeds = dom.getElementsByTagName("embed")
>>>
>>> let count = embeds.length
>>> SayInteger (count) ; Always returns 0
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This can be tested at
>>>
>>> http://www.weightwatchers.com
>>>
>>> Which has approximately 30 param tags, and several embed tags.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any idea why this is happening?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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