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

  • From: "Marlon Brandão de Sousa" <splyt.lists@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 08:10:19 -0300

Hello,
Firefox probably exposes the dom through a com object, which can be
estantiated through the jaws scripting language. Ttry to ask on
firefox dev phorums and see if you get help. If you are able to get
this info, please share with the list.
Thanks,
Marlon

2008/7/8, Bryan Garaventa <bgaraventa11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 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?
>
>
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> 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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