Explore accessibility structure using NSAccessibility

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Created Jul ’21

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Hello all, I have an application which explores accessibility structure. It is something similar to what Accessibility Inspector does. I have developed it using the old API. Using functions like AXUIElementCreateApplication or AXUIElementCopyAttributeValue and having to deal with pointers manually. Would it be possible to rewrite that code using NSAccessibility? I have read some doc about it but it seems it is designed to set accessibility in your OWN application, not for retrieving accessibility from external application.

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cheeseb OP

Jul ’21

That has been my conclusion. I first released my UI Browser application to explore the accessibility structure in 2002, and it has used the old API ever since. See https://pfiddlesoft.com/uibrowser.

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