Unfortunately not. The UIA tree is all but empty in the application
window. This is a very poorly written interface.
Aaron
On 8/8/2012 12:23 PM, Cory Samaha wrote:
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
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