Katherine, Also, have a look at the TreeView app from GW; it gives you a detailed structure of all the controls and other elements of an application, along with their MSAA information, and their hierarchical relationships. All of these can give you clues as to what each control is really doing. Still, there's no real straight forward answer to this question; it's as much an art as a science when trying to figure out how a program's UI works. Chip
_____ From: Katherine Moss [mailto:katherine.m...@gordon.edu] Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 11:12 AM To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com Subject: an idea, but how to go about it when I get there? Hello all, I'm curious. I was just comparing the accessibility of the SharpDevelop IDE with JAWS with that of WE and I find that neither one makes any difference. Both of them have accessibility problems in all of the dialogs and beyond. The obvious thing would be to script it once my programming skills get better, right? I would say so, but how does one go about doing that when they don't know what the controls and stuff are supposed to say anyway? This is driving me nuts because SharpDevelop might be a fantastic option for those programmers who want a professional grade IDE but can't afford the likes of the professional version of Visual Studio. The biggest problem I see is that lists are not read and radio buttons have spoken state, but their content is not labeled. Have any of you smart scripters figured out a way to get to stuff like that without the help of a sighted individual at all? (I despise the prospect of having to ask a sighted person anything that has to do with that because it means that they must stop what they are doing.) Katherine Moss, Administrator of the AccessCop Network, previously Raeder24.org. Visit us on the web at http://raeder24.org <http://raeder24.org/>
