Active accessibility mode not working in google chrome

[BalajiTK]

We are using Blueprism v6.4. AA mode spying does not seem to work in google chrome. We tried –force-renderer-accessibility but that also doesn't work. Let us know if you have any solutions.

[AmiBarrett]

Got a response back from the Product team. The short of it is that while it's been internally acknowledged, it's unclear if all browsers that share the Application Model type of Browser (Chrome/Edge/Firefox) support AA. They would need to do some R&D to explore before saying officially if it's a feasible implementation.

It was also mentioned that in order to be integrated with the product, this would need to be raised as an enhancement request on our ideas portal. Doing so will allow them to better track the importance of integration from the user base.

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Ami Barrett
Automation Developer, Team Lead
Blue Prism
Plano, TX
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[david.l.morris]

I've always assumed it was intended that AA was removed for Chrome/Firefox/Edge automation. If we do suggest this in the ideas portal, I'll vote it up. I won't post it myself in case one of you are doing it. Please link here if any of you post it. If we got AA in non-IE browser automation, it would actually be a significant boost to functionality since AA quite often has more detailed selectors available compared to UIA as well as it being faster in many cases.

Now if we can just get Match Reverse across all browsers and across all spy modes. ;)

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Dave Morris
Cano Ai
Atlanta, GA
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[AmiBarrett]

Agreed on the AA comments there.

Match Reverse sounds like another "idea" to post, if that's how they track implementation requests now. :p

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Ami Barrett
Automation Developer, Team Lead
Blue Prism
Plano, TX
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[sapna_soni0290]

Hi Ami,

AA mode(in IE brower) has stopped working on one of my bot machines, while the code is working fine on other machines. Can you please suggest, if there is any setting changes, i need to do to enable it.

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sapna soni
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Capgemini Pvt Ltd
Asia/Kolkata
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[AmiBarrett]

I have occasionally seen where a reboot will resolve this, but I do not know a consistent root cause.

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Ami Barrett
Automation Developer, Team Lead
Blue Prism
Plano, TX
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[NileshJadhavBP]

Hi Sapna,

Clear all IE histroy and restart the machine your issue will be resolve.

Thanks
Nilesh

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Nilesh Jadhav
Senior RPA Specialist
ADP
India
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[MayankGoyal2]

@Dave Morris - I have submitted the idea here - https://community.blueprism.com/get-involved/ideas/viewidea?IdeationKey=47795683-f3ac-4018-bf49-7f2a76e81a96 ​

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Mayank Goyal
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[Alimuddin_Muzam]

hi @AmiBarrett

One of my colleagues was facing similar issue where AA was not appearing as a mode in chrome. So, I suggested the above method to her. And now she gets the AA mode, but still nothing inside the webpage is getting identified by AA. Only outside the webpage, like the URL bar (in chrome), it is able to indentify.

Can you please guide?

Thanks,

Alimuddin Muzammil Quazi

Senior Analyst
Accenture
Asia/Kolkata​

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Alimuddin Muzammil Quazi Senior Analyst
Senior Analyst
Accenture
Asia/Kolkata
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[Alimuddin_Muzam]

Hi

In case of AA mode issue existing on a specific machine, re-registering the OLEACC.DLL can also be tried. I found this solution on BP portal while searching for AA mode troubleshooting measures. I have saved this information in a word document for ready reference. Attaching the same here.

Thanks.

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Alimuddin Muzammil Quazi Senior Analyst
Senior Analyst
Accenture
Asia/Kolkata
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[AmiBarrett]

Provided Chrome was launched with the --force-renderer-accessibility flag, it should enable AA content within the browser pane. The behaviour you're describing sounds as though it was not.

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Ami Barrett
RPA Blue Prism SME
Karsun Solutions
Plano TX
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