Comments on: Automation and accessibility http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/09/10/automation-and-accessibility/ Strategies for Internet citizens Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:22:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: debt consolodation companies http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/09/10/automation-and-accessibility/#comment-126083 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 05:53:16 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/09/10/automation-and-accessibility/#comment-126083 debt company consolodation consolodation about debt

]]> By: Automation and accessibility in Silverlight « Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/09/10/automation-and-accessibility/#comment-122762 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:40:28 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/09/10/automation-and-accessibility/#comment-122762 [...] users, it provides the hooks needed to record, exchange, and replay software interactions. In The social scripting continuum I showed how IBM’s CoScripter enables people to share their knowledge of how to use web [...]

]]> By: From screencasting to automation « Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/09/10/automation-and-accessibility/#comment-82516 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:44:25 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/09/10/automation-and-accessibility/#comment-82516 [...] Interface Automation (UIA) stuff. My mom can use all the help she can get. But as I discussed in Automation and accessibility, beefing up our ability to automate software in a consistent way can give us huge leverage in other [...]

]]> By: Screencasting and scripting « Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/09/10/automation-and-accessibility/#comment-66086 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:55:07 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/09/10/automation-and-accessibility/#comment-66086 [...] Uncategorized — Jon Udell @ 7:55 am I was chatting the other day with Jim Hugunin about an earlier posting on automation and accessibility, and Jim highlighted a point that’s worth calling out [...]

]]> By: links for 2007-09-12 « Joost’s weblog http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/09/10/automation-and-accessibility/#comment-60764 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:23:52 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/09/10/automation-and-accessibility/#comment-60764 [...] Automation and accessibility (Jon Udell) Interesting write up about CoScripter. Compares different ways of scripting existing applications, with a distinction between ’semantic engine scripting’ and ’semantic UI scripting’. Point made is that the second (thus CoScripter) is closer to the user. (tags: automation enduser coscripter jonudell automagic) [...]

]]> By: Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/09/10/automation-and-accessibility/#comment-60495 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:10:25 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/09/10/automation-and-accessibility/#comment-60495 “surely Windows Automation is conceptually just like a Unix batch file”

What I’m calling engine-based automation is akin to the Unix way of connecting software components in a pipeline.

What I’m calling UI-based automation is a different beast. It’s a way of working with the machinery that people use to directly manipulate software components.

]]> By: Gavin.B http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/09/10/automation-and-accessibility/#comment-60252 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:33:18 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/09/10/automation-and-accessibility/#comment-60252 I still haven’t experimented with CoScripter but …

surely Windows Automation is conceptually just like a Unix batch file except with an unnecessary screencast to keep you informed/entertained/drain your resources. In that scenario the UI reveals itself as just extra baggage – indicating the folly of obliging an OS to always run a GUI when it starts up – something you’d rather avoid in clustering environments – where you can’t use Windows without opening … erm … any windows!

Also I doubt a merge between OS and browser scripting will produced dividends since it will mess with the user’s perceptions of security – ActiveX and all that. In fact, the CoScripter runs in FF which isn’t intergated into the OS gives me some confidence to try it out.

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