[jawsscripts] Re: Problem capturing text using DOM in IE 11
- From: Bob <temp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:52:11 +0000
With Jaws 15
IE 11
This will pop the whole page text in a message box.
Script Test ()
Var
Object HTML,
String sText
Let HTML = IEGetCurrentDocument ()
Let sText = HTML.body.innerText
MessageBox (sText)
EndScript
Does that help at all?
Bob
On 12/12/2014 16:28, John Robichaud wrote:
> Bob & Scott,
> I've tried both of your suggestions without success. The situation is
> critical now as an individuals employment counts on resolving this. I've
> done some more experimenting and have discovered the following.
> When using Internet Explorer 8 under Windows 7 with either Jaws 13 or 15 the
> code I've reposted below successfully captures the text on a web page. For
> this test I've used Freedom Scientifics home page but the web page doesn't
> seem to be significant.
> With either IE 9 or IE 11 the code returns nothing. I've been unable to
> come up with any script code that can use the DOM to access text in IE 9 or
> IE 11. Can use of the DOM be broken in Jaws as regards newer versions of
> IE? If so, that's a very serious problem.
> I'm deperate at this point - if anyone can demonstrate Jaws code that
> successfully uses the DOM to access text in IE 9 or 11 please post it. My
> code that works in IE 8 follows:
>
> String Function WorkSpaceText ()
> var
> object doc,
> object win,
> string sBuffer
>
> Let doc = ieGetCurrentDocument ()
> Let win = ieGetUnrestrictedWindow(doc).document.body
> Let sBuffer = win.createTextRange().text
> return sBuffer
> EndFunction
>
> John Robichaud
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Huey (Redacted
> sender "smartinhuey@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 3:48 PM
> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Problem capturing text using DOM in IE 11
>
> The one thing I can tell you about DOM manipulation techniques within JAWS
> scripts is that JAWS absolutely hates chaining the object methods more than
> one layer deep. In a number of instances, I've found that while the chain is
> conceptually sound, the function only works if I walked the individual calls
> into variables. Example from below, "oFrame.document.body.innerText" is a
> valid call in JavaScript, but in JAWS script you may find it only works if
> you do it like this:
>
> let oDOM = ieGetCurrentDocument ()
> let oFrame = oDOM.frames(2)
> let oObject = oFrame.document
> let oObject = oObject.body
> let sText = oObject.innerText
>
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Wed, 12/10/14, Bob <temp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Problem capturing text using DOM in IE 11
> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2014, 3:03 PM
>
> John
>
> I have no idea what the difference is but I
> have always used
> IeGetCurrentDocument when
> playing with the DOM.
> I would try something
> like the following:
>
> String
> Function GetFrameContents ()
> Var
> Object oDOM,
>
> Object oFrame,
> String sFrameText
>
> Let oDOM =
> ieGetCurrentDocuemnt ()
> Let oFrame =
> oDOM.frames(2)
>
> Let sFrameText =
> oFrame.document.body.innerText
>
> Return sFrameText
>
> EndFunction
>
> You may need to fiddle with the document.body.
> and the innerText to maybe
> innerHTML or
> outerText dependant on what sort of output you need.
> You also need to take into account the origin
> of the frame contents. To
> increase security
> modern browsers prevent scripts from running from a
> different domain. If the frame contents are
> from http://siteA.com and the
> main page is http://siteB.com
> you wont be able to access it.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of John Robichaud
> Sent: 09
> December 2014 21:06
> To: JawScripts
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Problem capturing text
> using DOM in IE 11
>
> I'm
> having a problem capturing text from an HTML frame using the
> DOM in IE
> 11. This is Windows 7 and Jaws
> 15.
> The following code works with IE8 and
> Jaws 13 but not with IE 11 and Jaws
> 15:
>
>
>
> String Function WorkAreaText ()
>
> var
>
> object doc,
>
> object
> TopWindow,
>
>
> object win,
>
> object frames,
>
> string
> sBuffer
>
>
>
> Let doc =
> ie4GetCurrentDocument ()
>
>
> Let topWindow = doc.parentWindow
>
> Let topWindow
> = topWindow.top
>
>
> Let frames = TopWindow.frames
>
> Let win =
> ieGetUnrestrictedWindow(frames(2)).document.body
>
> Let sBuffer =
> win.createTextRange().text
>
>
> return sBuffer ;the text in the frame
>
> EndFunction
>
>
>
>
>
> I'd
> appreciate any suggestions.
>
> Also can anyone explain the difference between
> ie4GetCurrentDocument ()and
> ieGetCurrentDocument ().
>
> Although I've successfully used the
> function ieGetUnrestrictedWindow() many
> times in the manner shown above I've never
> seen a good explanation of it.
> Can anyone
> explain it?
>
> John
> Robichaud
>
>
>
>
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