Testing on MacOs

[luca3s]

Hi, I am developing on Mac and i have basic support working. But it is not as nice as some of the Apps developed by Apple, so i wanted to find a way to improve it. Apple has a tool for debugging accessability: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accessibility/accessibility-inspector

Does anyone have experience using this tool?
I can't select my program inside of this inspector. I am using a regular winit App. Do you know of a way to enable this? Or is there another way of inspecting the accessability tree, that maybe could highlight issues?

[jdm]

#465 (comment)

We discovered that for an application to show up in the inspector, it needs to be packaged and run as a macOS app bundle, not simply run from the terminal.

[luca3s]

Oh thanks! I will look into how to do that.

[jdm]

cargo-bundle is a tool that can help.

[DataTriny]

Hi, I personally was never able to efficiently use Accessibility Inspector, so I instead rely on a Python library called pyatom to reverse engineer Apple's accessibility model. Still, we know that we are still missing stuff such as how to report the selected state of items in a list. Any help would be appreciated, as Apple's documentation on the NS Accessibility protocol is very thin.

[luca3s]

Thank you. will also take a look at that.

I think what's missing most is actually documentation inside of Accesskit. I now try to follow the code inside egui as that seems to work pretty well and then when i get it to work i will probably write some docs for accesskit.