CODEWITHSUNDEEP
macoscocoaaccessibility
pajevic
pajevic

Reputation: 4657

Accessibility broken with Preview.app in OS X 10.8.4?

We have an application that integrates with different programs (among which is the Preview.app) using accessibility. We use the AXUIElementSetAttributeValue function to programmatically select some text in a PDF document using the kAXSelectedTextRangeAttribute. This used to work fine but suddenly stopped on my Mac (nothing seems to happend). My co-worker doesn't have the issue so after trying to figure out the difference I remembered that I had just updated to OS X 10.8.4 while he hasn't. I then read about this update and among the features and fixes was the following:

Improves VoiceOver compatibility with text in PDF documents

This indicates to me that they have fiddled with the area where I am having the issue. My question is now weather this is simply a bug or if it is by design. In the case of the latter, what am I supposed to use in stead?

PS. We tried also setting the selection range using the Accessibility Inspector found under Developer tools in Xcode and it works fine in 10.8.2 but not in 10.8.4, which further indicates that this might be a bug.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 353

Answers (1)

pajevic
pajevic

Reputation: 4657

This is indeed a bug. I just installed the developer preview of OS X 10.8.5 and the issue has been resolved here. In the change-log it also says that some of the changes in this version regard "PDF viewing and Accessibility".

Upvotes: 1

Related Questions