[jawsscripts] Re: Activating a Button with JAWS
- From: "E.J. Zufelt" <everett@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:12:26 -0400
Good morning Geoff,
Yes, I can put this up on the Wiki and I am going to follow your advice and
write a short how to article and add the information about the wiki to the
bottom of the mailing list messages.
Thanks,
Everett
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 11:02 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Activating a Button with JAWS
> wow everet! all very cool info I never knewed before. thank you for
> sharing
> this!
>
> can you maybe put this one up on the magic wiki that I don't know how to
> use
> yet?
> I think it's definitely fodda for it.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "E.J. Zufelt" <everett@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 11:54 PM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Activating a Button with JAWS
>
>
>> Good morning again,
>>
>> Another note:
>>
>> If the button (or other element) that you are looking for has only a name
>> and not an id you can use.
>>
>> Let oButton = oDoc.getElementsByName("nameHere")
>>
>> This returns an array of all of the elements with the specified name. To
>> access the array elements use parentheses, e.g.
>>
>> oButton(0).click
>>
>> You can find out how many elements were returned with
>>
>> oButton.length
>>
>> HTH,
>> Everett
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "E.J. Zufelt" <everett@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 8:40 AM
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Activating a Button with JAWS
>>
>>
>> > Good morning,
>> >
>> > I found a solution to my Find problem, but I am still open to suggested
>> > methods to use that function.
>> >
>> > What I was attempting to do is to locate a button on a page full of
>> > buttons
>> > and then to provide a JAWS Script to click on that particular button
>> > (to
>> > save the end user searching for the right button all day long).
>> >
>> > Thanks to Jamal for reminding me that you can access the IE DOM using
>> > JAWS.
>> >
>> > Here is what I did:
>> >
>> > Script findButton ()
>> >
>> > Var
>> >
>> > Object oDoc,
>> >
>> > Object oButton
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ; Gets a reference to the DOM
>> >
>> > Let oDoc = IEGetCurrentDocument ()
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ; Finds the button that I am looking for based on the buttons id
> atribute.
>> >
>> > Let oButton = oDoc.getElementById("b2")
>> >
>> > oButton.click()
>> >
>> > EndScript
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > HTH,
>> >
>> > Everett
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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