Accessibility Inspector is an app present in OSX which allows to inspect the accessibility attributes in an user interface.
Questions tagged [accessibility-inspector]
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iOS Simulator Accessibility Inspector Freeze
In the iOS simulator with XCode 5, opening the Accessibility Inspector freezes the simulator. There does not seem to be a way to exit the Accessibility Inspector.
Quitting and reopening the simulator, changing the hardware type, and restarting…

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Accessibility Identifier not visible in Accessibility Inspector with iOS Simulator
I wanted to use the Accessibility Inspector to verify all the accessibility identifiers in my app running in the simulator (iOS 9.2).
Accessibility Inspector is able to return multiple accessibility fields but not the identifiers.
Any idea why and…

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Xcode Accessibility Inspector not showing hit area
I'm having a problem with Accessibility Inspector that since I installed XCode 12, my accessibility inspector stopped working like it was with xcode 11. I don't know if it is related to the newest simulators or the xcode itself.
Clicking on the…

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Accessibility Inspector doesn't work on iOS 11.2
it seems the accessibility inspector is not working well with iOS 11.2. Is there a known workaround or maybe apple introduced a new switch?
Thanks!
iOS 11.2
iOS 11.0.1 is working correctly

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Understanding _accessibilitySearchSubtreesAfterChildElement error in voiceover navigation
I have a view controller with a UITableView. The top cell in the tableView is the topmost accessibility element on the screen. On iPads, when left flicking from the top cell, behaviour is as expected: it registers the sound that there are no more…

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macOS Accessibility Inspector does not work with Slack
When I'm using macOS's Accessibility Inspector on apps like notes and Apple mail, I get all the window's children elements. If I use the Inspector on Slack, though, I only get the window and nothing of the content.
Is there a way to force slack to…

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PDF-UA In a table not organized with Headers attributes and IDs, a TH cell does not contain a Scope attribute
We use xsl-fo to generate pdf.
We want the pdf to be pdf-ua-compliant.
We use veraPDF for validation this standard.
When there is a table-header that has horizontal spanned cells, it complains about rule 7.5-1:
"In a table not organized with…

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How to enumerate UITextView accessibility child elements?
I have a UITextView that displays attributed string with links in it. When I run Accessibility Inspector, it can correct detect the UITextView as static text, and list the links as children with correct UIAccessibilityTraitLink. Now I need to get…

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accessibilityIdentifier of buttons in swipeActions are not getting read by [Xcode]Accessibility Inspector Tool
I have a swiftUI view that lists items. They have trailing swipe actions.
I have given accessibilityIdentifiers to the button in the swipe menu. But the Xcode tool: Accessibility Inspector, does not get them first time.
Here is my view:
import…

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Script editor is not able to access popover UI element in macOs version - Big Sur
AppleScript code:
tell process "EdgeMonitor"
tell menu bar 2
UI elements
end tell
end tell
When trying to access UI elements for a given application, we are getting different results on macOS Ventura and macOS Big…
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Does Accessibility Inspector work with the tvOS simuator?
I'm trying to perform an accessibility audit of a simple Hello World app on tvOS. When I debug on to a physical Apple TV I can select the device from the dropdown in Accessibility Inspector and then use the inspector view and audit view as…

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how to define a specific window point and assign a color palette trigger
There are some GUI elements/buttons in Logic pro X that don't have a state parameter (value = nil see appendix)
accessebility insperctor
and so I need to help to create an applescript to check the color palette of that GUI-button for subsequent…

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Mark accessibility elements as "ignored" by Accesibility Inspector
I am testing my iOS application in terms of accessibility and I am trying to reduce as many warnings as possible. Some elements, like images, I want to omit from the Voice Over, so I mark them as not accessible. However, in the Accessibility…

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How to tap a toggle button which have label,value and traits as null
Using xcode Ui Automation tool for iOS app, I'm trying create a UI test case. But I got into a situation where a toggle button doesn't have any label value. Due to which UI automation tool is failing to find the element and giving an error.
Is there…

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How To Make One Text File From Two Text files Text With Apple Script
I am trying to combine two text files text in one text file in some specific manner. I have many text files so I want to automate this process. I trying to learn apple script for this.
How to achieve this with apple script.
Treat it as a two files…

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