Accessibility Insights for Windows helps developers find and fix accessibility issues in Windows apps. Allows developers to verify that an element in an app has the right UI Automation properties. Troubleshooting allows you to diagnose and fix specific accessibility issues https://accessibilityinsights.io/docs/en/windows/overview
Questions tagged [accessibility-insights]
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MS Teams | Accessibility Insight | Dual Monitor
Objective: Accessibility behavior of MS Teams on Dual Monitor, with Monitors setup at different scales, example 100% and 125%, with 1920*1080 resolution. The tool I use is Accessibility Insight.
Problem: Accessibility Insight is unable to locate the…

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Accessibility Insights automated test differ from Axe
Results of automated accessibility tests in the Axe Chrome extension differ from the results of Accessibility Insights automated tests. Since they both are using axe-core, what might be the reason?
I want to switch to the Accessibility Insights for…

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What is the ControlType in Accessibility Insights for Windows and how does it map to HTML elements?
Accessibility Insights for Windows shows the following property:
ControlType Group(50026)
when I hover over a search box that is an html tag.
I used Google Chrome Version 80.0.3987.87 (Official Build) (64-bit).
How does AI4W determine…

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Inspect Font of UI element
I want to detect what is the Font of some Button in an application.
I have tried Inspect From Windows Kit, but as I see, it does not have Font property for the UI elements. The same with Accessibility Insights.
GUIPropView has Font property, but it…

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accessibility-insights@3 task - An error occurred while scanning website page http://localhost:49487
What is the cause for the following accessibility task error?
Scanning URL http://localhost:49487/
##[debug]Starting accessibility scanning of URL http://localhost:49487/
##[debug]Chrome app executable: system default
##[debug] Created a data…

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How to invoke chrome extension from application with parameters and receive response for the same?
I am using Accessibility Insights extension to find accessibility issues in web apps and sites. Now, I wanted to create an application through which I want to invoke this extension along with my URLs and want the issues found by the extension for my…

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Is there a way to add an exception to Accessibility Insights so that elements with a specific attribute are allowed to break a specific rule?
We are using a package that breaks the "aria-hidden-focus" rule because an element with "aria-hidden" is focusable. I reached out to the package owners and they said this is on purpose because elements with data-tabster-dummy attribute are…

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Can I stop Microsoft Accessibility Insights for Windows from reaching out for updates
Currently Microsoft Accessibility Insights reaches out consistently to check for updates. Although this is great is causes issues with our release process internally as it effectively stops the software from working update the update has been…
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Standalone installer for AI Chrome extension?
I'd like to use Accessibility Insights to check contrast on a website I'm working on, but the code is on a VM with no internet access. I looked at using the Accessibility Insights Windows application, since I could just copy that installer up to the…

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How to Flag Accessibility Insights Results as Ignored or Won't Fix?
Is there a way using the Accessibility Insights for Web browser extension to flag certain results as ones that are "known" but will not or cannot be fixed so that they stop showing up in assessment reports?
I'd like to have the development team run…

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How can Accessibility Insights succeed in walking UIAutomation Tree of Chromium Embedded Framework App, but Inspect and my code can't?
I'm using Microsoft's UIAutomation framework to retrieve information from an app that is built on the Chromium Embedded Framework. My code is failing to find the needed information, so I brought out inspect.exe to look at the tree. Sure enough,…

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How access not accessible UI element?
I am trying to automate SQL developer connection using FlaUI and windows accessibility insights tool but windows accessibility insights tool not detecting some UI element[plus[green button]].
I am expecting that accessibility insights tool detect…

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Insights won't launch, just buffers
I have used this extension since it was launched, and it's my favorite. Now when I click the icon, it continually buffers, and never launches.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled the extension.
I have turned off all other extensions in case there was…

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Accessibility insights for windows app shows error for datagrid- custom column and other columns for name property of focusable element is null
I'm trying to fix the accessibility bugs I found in Accessibility insights for windows app for my desktop application.
Here is my code for datagrid-

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accessibility insights report checkmarks
On the Assessment report, there are a different number of empty dots (for lack of better word) next to each line item, which then afterwards have a checkmark or "x". Why a different quantity for each line item and when checkmarks and "x", what do…

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