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How to trigger AccessibleEvent from unit test? [message #641929] Mon, 29 November 2010 04:52 Go to next message
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Trying to run a unit test to verify screen reader support on my UIs.

I have a unit test that moves around the UI and listens to screen reader events, matching each event to expected text. It runs OK as long as I have a screen reader (such as JAWS) running, but I would prefer to run the unit test without this dependency.

As far as I can tell, what I need to do is to somehow force a call to org.eclipse.swt.accessibility.Accessible.get_accName(int, int). But this method is package private and not very accessible (no pun intended); callers seem to be well encapsulated deep down in native O/S code.

Is there a simple way to simulate screen reader callbacks without actually running one?
Re: How to trigger AccessibleEvent from unit test? [message #641986 is a reply to message #641929] Mon, 29 November 2010 08:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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For manual testing use inspect32 (I mention it in the article). If you work with that you are calling the windows accessibility API that SWT uses.

As far as a JUnit test the only real test is to write something that calls the windows accessibility API rather than the SWT API (as you want to test if the screen reader works). I don't know of anything like that myself.

Tod
Re: How to trigger AccessibleEvent from unit test? [message #641993 is a reply to message #641986] Mon, 29 November 2010 08:40 Go to previous message
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yes, I've played around with a number of tools (including insoect32), but the ones I've tried all require manual control (physical user interaction) and are external tools that cannot be (easily) launched and automated from within a test case.
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