Thanks Chip:
I am still not sure if UIA is going to help at all with the Visual Studio
Express versions since they dont expose their dom like the Pro level of that
product and above.
At least that is what Ive heard.
Also, the Express versions dont allow Plug-Ins, Add-Ins, so that method of
improving their accessibility is out.
I guess I will just try vb.net 2010 more in-depth. While not as good as 2008
it is accessible, pretty much, using WE. I really dont know how WE managed to
make it as accessible as it is.
As for the immenant release of VS 11 ... Metro sounds like a real can of worms
just like the Microsoft Phone OS which is totally inaccessible as far as I know.
Rick USA
----- Original Message -----
From: Chip Orange
To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 6:22 PM
Subject: RE: WE And Microsoft Development Environments
Hi Rick,
If you don't want to make it into a working script (and I do think it would
see a lot of use while .net users wait for better accessibility), then you
could always publish the source code in a wiki article, with any explanatory
text you care to add; that would allow others to pick things up and continue
development.
Chip
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From: RicksPlace [mailto:ofbgm...@mi.rr.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 4:48 AM
To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com
Subject: Re: WE And Microsoft Development Environments
Hi Kate and Chip: I had heard that also.
For the Pro and above you can use plug-ins and I guess there is more of a
DOM available.
I was hoping to be able to use the existing DOM and MSAA in the Express
versions to clean up some of the less user friendly features.
I just am not going to drop hundreds of dollars just to create scripts,
if they can be created for WE, when I use the Express versions.
I can work around the problems manually for the most part but would
prefer a clean IDE with things all working properly if possible.
Well, I am waiting for the final release version of VS 11 to see how it
handles the new features like that Metro stuff.
By the way, MS has deprecated support for Macros in VS 11 if not in 2010
since they said less than 1 percent of their clients use that feature.
I wonder what percent of their clients use UIA and ARIA accessibility
hooks?
Anyway, it is what it is so I'll close this thread with a big thank you
to you folks.
I have a VB.net script working so if anyone ever wants it as a base to
build from let me know.
It is in vb.net 2008 express so will likely be out of date sooner rather
than later but at least I finally have it working thanks to some clean base
code from Aaron.
Thanks Aaron, if you are reading this and good work you old guru.
Later:
Rick USA
