Aaron, Thanks for checking into it anyway. Do you think, like Doug mentioned, that this could be scriptable if we could manipulate UIA through WE scripting? Or, is this amazon program a lost cause?
-----Original Message----- From: Aaron Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 8:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: scripting Adobe AIR applications That's a bummer. Nice use of the scripting tools, though. Aaron On 8/7/2012 5:15 PM, Cory Samaha wrote: > Yeah, I was able to get it installed using immed actually. I just > found the accessible object which needed to be activated and did > DoDefaultAction on it. But once it is installed, I just don't see any > MSAA event information coming through, nor do I see any accessible objects to work with either. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Aaron Smith [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 5:05 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: scripting Adobe AIR applications > > The UIA to MSAA bridge makes the Adobe AIR installer scriptable. In > fact, Window-Eyes would just read it out of the box were we more open > to who we support MSAA in. I don't know about the rest of the Amazon > program. I do see that there's very little keyboard support to begin > with, even without a screen reader involved. > > Aaron > > On 8/7/2012 4:24 PM, Doug Lee wrote: >> My understanding is that AIR's accessibility is UIA-based, and the >> MSAA support provided for UIA controls is both limited and somewhat >> non-standard in my experience, which means screen readers that rely >> only on MSAA will struggle in these cases. I don't remember if WE >> includes any direct UIA access features for scripters, though I'm >> sure there are those on this list with very concrete answers to that >> question. >> >> On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 03:36:13PM -0400, Cory Samaha wrote: >> It seems to be short on MSAA events (I tried running WeEvent). Of >> course, I could be missing something. The direct URL for the importer is: >> https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/digital/music/upl >> o ader/a pp/win/AmazonMusicImporterInstaller-2.0.0._V392838521_.exe >> >> I'm not sure if that URL is session specific; I don't think it is. >> If that doesn't work, go to >> https://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/mp3/player >> and login to amazon. Once there, click import music. When you click >> import music, there is an in page dialog which comes up allowing you >> to download the importer, but WE does not read this automatically. A >> lot of mouse nav action has to be done to even get this thing >> downloaded. The only way I was able to get the direct URL to the >> importer which I gave above is because I reviewed the source of this page. >> >> Cory >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Aaron Smith [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 2:48 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: scripting Adobe AIR applications >> >> There may be some MSAA event/window information you could use. Where >> does one find this program? >> >> Aaron >> >> On 8/7/2012 2:15 PM, Cory Samaha wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> As much as I don't care for some of the recent products from adobe, >>> there are some programs which would be nice to have access to which >>> use the Adobe AIR runtime. One that recently comes to mind is the >>> Amazon music importer, which is similar to iTunes music match I >>> believe in the sense that it searches your computer and will match >>> music files on your hard drive with music from the Amazon mp3 catalog. >>> >>> Anyway, I was wondering if Adobe AIR has an accessible framework of >>> any kind? I was thinking maybe it would be possible to get some of >>> the programs to speak with WE, similar to the WE4Java project. I >>> don't know much about the Adobe AIR API, so before I waste time, I >>> was wondering if anyone else has already explored this area before. >>> >>> If I am not mistaken, other screen readers such as NVDA tout support >>> for Adobe AIR. I loaded the above mentioned amazon music importer >>> with NVDA and couldn't get anything to speak. I'm not sure if >>> that's a problem with AIR or poor design on Amazon's part. If a >>> project could be done to get WE to work with AIR though, that would be cool. >>> Any >> thoughts? >>> Thanks, >>> Cory >> -- >> Aaron Smith >> Web Development * App Development * Product Support Specialist GW >> Micro, Inc. * 725 Airport North Office Park, Fort Wayne, IN 46825 >> 260-489-3671 * gwmicro.com >> >> To insure that you receive proper support, please include all past >> correspondence (where applicable), and any relevant information >> pertinent to your situation when submitting a problem report to the >> GW Micro Technical Support Team. >> >> > -- > Aaron Smith > Web Development * App Development * Product Support Specialist GW > Micro, Inc. * 725 Airport North Office Park, Fort Wayne, IN 46825 > 260-489-3671 * gwmicro.com > > To insure that you receive proper support, please include all past > correspondence (where applicable), and any relevant information > pertinent to your situation when submitting a problem report to the GW > Micro Technical Support Team. > -- Aaron Smith Web Development * App Development * Product Support Specialist GW Micro, Inc. * 725 Airport North Office Park, Fort Wayne, IN 46825 260-489-3671 * gwmicro.com To insure that you receive proper support, please include all past correspondence (where applicable), and any relevant information pertinent to your situation when submitting a problem report to the GW Micro Technical Support Team.
