Inspector-Accessibility-v1

Accessibility Inspector

While using stdAcc it is often useful to be able to obtain the accessibility information at the cursor. This can help you find elements to further investigate the accessibility tree. This example provides a utility application which can be used to:

• Pinpoint element attributes to assist during automation.
• Allows setting of accValue, typically useful to test setting fields with information.
• Allows execution of DoDefaultAction.

Requirements

• stdVBA
  • stdAcc
  • stdWindow
  • stdICallable
• Currently only works on Windows OS

Usage

Open xlsm and click launch!

Move your mouse around to extract accessibility information

Roadmap

• Extract basic accessibility information
• Provide a button to freeze time, allowing the copy and paste of data out of the form.
• Make form topmost
• FIXME: Slow path creation over Excel.
• Option to highlighting the hovered accessibility element with a yellow rect created with GDI+ to help indicate which window is being inspected.
• Display the accessibility tree in a treeview control. Navigating the tree should navigate the inspected element and navigate "hover rectangle" above - this will likely be a different project.

Known issues

• Path field has currently been disabled. See roadmap.

High Level Process

flowchart TD
    A[Launch AccHelper Form] --> B[Form Shows and Watch Loop Starts]

    B --> C[Capture Element via stdAcc.CreateFromMouse]
    C --> D[Update UI with Element Properties]

    D --> E[User Can Perform Actions<br/>SetValue or DoDefaultAction]
    E --> B

    B --> F[If Temporary Mode Active<br/>Stop After 5s]
    F --> B

    B --> G[User Closes Form → Exit]

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Project Structure

flowchart LR
    subgraph BaseLibraries[stdVBA Utilities]
        SA[stdAcc]
        SW[stdWindow]
    end

    subgraph Inspector[Inspector]
        LI[Launch]
        AH[AccHelper]
    end

    %% Dependencies
    LI --> AH
    AH --> SA
    AH --> SW

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