Posts Tagged ‘MSAA’

Microsoft Active Accessibility Methods and Inconsistent Implementations

August 12th, 2009

The C++ IAccessible interface offers a handful of methods that allow you to gather information or perform actions on an object. Each of these methods are well documented on MSDN, but it is up to the creator of an object to implement them correctly. In this article, I’ll be talking about a couple of the inconsistencies you may run into when using these methods due to improper implementations and a lack of restrictions on how they should be implemented.
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A trip into the depths of Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) through C++

July 10th, 2009

Over the next few months, I will be interacting with Microsoft Access, Word, and Excel 2007 through Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) in C++. As my journey progresses, I will be posting the neat little tricks and painful quirks that I run into along the way. To start, here are a few resources you can use to read up on Microsoft Active Accessibility.

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