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Microsoft Active Accessibility is a Component Object Model (COM)-based technology that improves the way accessibility aids work with applications running on Microsoft Windows. It provides dynamic-link libraries that are incorporated into the operating system as well as a COM interface and API elements that provide reliable methods for exposing information about UI elements.

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"Chrome legacy Window" when launching chrome with RunAs

I am trying to use MSAA (on Win7) to get the addressbar in chrome browser and replace it with a different url. When chrome is launched normally (as the loggedon user), I am able to find the addressbar using the IAccessible interface by traversing…
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How to use Dynamic annotation with Microsoft UI Automation?

MSAA (Microsoft Active Accessibility) allows dynamic annotation wherein certain accessibility properties of controls can be set without having to re-implement MSAA interfaces. Specifically server annotation (which is a type of dynamic annotation)…
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Elements displaying in UI Auotmation, but not MSAA

Forgive me as I'm not an expert in this matter... We use MSAA and a venodors app to capture user's visited webpages. I have some machines that do not capture the visited web pages. The pages are captured through MSAA (Im using MS's inspect utility…
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How to test the accessibility object of a windows form application?

In WindowsForms each control having the AccessibilityObject. If its a custom control derived from a Control then its also having the AccessibilityObject. How can i test the accessibility object of the custom control in windows forms. Is there any…
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IAccIdentity is not returning unique values?

As discussed in a previous post, I'm making an equivalent of Inspect.exe. To do this, I'm using IAccIdentity to obtain a "unique" ID of each control. However, it turns out these IDs are NOT unique? In this case, I could use accName to distinguish…
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MSAA - How to check if 2 automation elements refer to the same thing?

I am making an application which intends to behave like inspect.exe. I have a treeview of accessibility elements which are queried on demand as the user navigates through the elements. I want to implement the 'Watch Cursor' feature now. I can obtain…
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