can't ping anything except for the traffic light buttons through the macOS Accessibility
trying (again) the macOS beta of 1Password 8. i'm not able to ping anything through the macOS Accessibility, except for the three traffic light buttons. the rest is a big AXScrollArea. afaik, the answer is gonna be frightening but i have to ask: is there any plan—and any possibility—that you guys bring back the Accessibility that was available in the native 1Password 7? thanks.
1Password Version: 8.7.0
Extension Version: 2.3.1
OS Version: macOS 12.3.1
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What does ping mean in this context?
Last time I played with Switch Control I was able to interact with most 1Password elements. I can grab a controller to compare again if that's what you're talking about.
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Hi @godbout, thank you for the question. Can you let us know more about what you're trying to do? Does "ping" here refer to the Accessibility API on MacOS? Any information you can provide will be helpful - and we of course want to make sure that we're providing a robustly accessible offering across platforms. 👍
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@PeterG_1P i'm building an app to click here and there around macOS through the keyboard. totally worked fine with 1Password 7 but doesn't work at all except for the usual close min max buttons. the app requires other apps to implement the macOS Accessibility. apps that use Electron as their core or for UI tend to not play very well with the Accessibility (made an app that brings Vim Mode to the whole macOS and it's been pretty horrendous to have an OK experience with Electron apps). anyways, hopefully i'm doing something wrong and you guys can guide me on that? thanks. here's a video below of the current state. pinging all the AX objects from frontmost window, of 1Password 7 and then 1Password 8.
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can't upload the file here it seems. will link to it then: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/121373/162804228-087c9a57-9fbf-4f65-901d-14cad39a0234.mp4
ok it doesn't seem to work either. will try to upload somewhere else.
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you can see the video in this GitHub issue comment: https://github.com/godbout/kindaVim.theapp/issues/64#issuecomment-1095400277
thank you!
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btw no video for that one, but when i'm using the Accessibility Inspector, i clearly can't ping object individually. i just have a huge AXScrollArea that handle the whole app, except for the traffic lights.
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I just compared again too, 1Password 7 vs. 1Password 8. Yes, I agree with you. 1Password 7 is MUCH easier to navigate with accessibility tools, such as Switch Control.
1Password 8 is significantly harder to navigate with accessibility/assistance features.
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@volts yes, this is because 1Password 7 is native UI and all the AX goodness comes out of the box.
@rob thank you. i hope things will happen on this side because i do believe a lot of people are going to not be able to use 1P8 properly without AX features (definitely people with disabilities). thanks again.
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