Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

Fig: Pipeline for Accessibility API UI Automation (UIA)  is an ordered tree of automation elements with a single interface for navigating the tree. This framework enables a portal to the user by providing and interpreting programmatic information from windows applications about user interfaces (UI). It helps to make products more  accessible  for everyone including people with disabilities all over the world. This not only offers programmatic access to most of the UI components but also allows assistive technology-based applications, such as screen readers, to provide users with knowledge about the UI and to control the UI. For the assistive technologies, UI Automation ensures that technology has access to important information about what is taking place in a particular user interface such as how a system will react if A button is pressed A list is opened A menu selected A combo box expanded. Assistive technology-based applications, such as screen readers or speech recogn...