accessibility-api

My requirement: Reading the text from pop up, dialog etc for particular app. I have implemented an accessibility service and I am receiving proper events and data as per my requirement. However while testing I realized that on some devices instead of using a AlertDialog or Dialog they have used an activity(themed as a dialog). Hence in my accessibility event I receive only the activity title, is there a way I could find the text displayed by this particular pop up activity? I have searched pretty hard but could not get much help on the topic nor did the documentation be of any good in this

How can I get window's title, position and size if it does not support Accessibility API? Accessibility Inspector does not see it at all. Say, it's a xterm window in X11.app (X11->Applications->Terminal). You should be able to get all of this window information through the methods exposed in the CGWindow.h header file. Apple's docs are online on the Quartz Window Services Reference page. They also have a very informative sample app called Son of Grab which should get you started. You can use CGWindowListCreateDescriptionFromArray(). See CGWindow.h This gives you an array of dictionaries. The

I want to enable access for assistive devices programatically on 10.9. On 10.8 and lower I was using following Applescript to enable access for assistive devices: tell application "System Events" if UI elements enabled is false then set UI elements enabled to true end if end tell With 10.9, Apple has moved the accessibility options to System Preferences ➞ Security & Privacy ➞ Privacy ➞ Accessibility. Unlike previous versions of OS X, which used a universal checkbox for all applications, the new functionality in 10.9 allows users to individually choose which apps can gain control of the system