- Release Notes
- Getting Started
- Setup and Configuration
- Automation Projects
- Dependencies
- Types of Workflows
- File Comparison
- Automation Best Practices
- Source Control Integration
- Debugging
- The Diagnostic Tool
- Variables
- Arguments
- Imported Namespaces
- Trigger-based Attended Automation
- Recording
- UI Elements
- Control Flow
- Selectors
- Object Repository
- Data Scraping
- Image and Text Automation
- Automating Citrix Technologies
- RDP Automation
- Salesforce Automation
- SAP Automation
- VMware Horizon Automation
- Logging
- The ScreenScrapeJavaSupport Tool
- The WebDriver Protocol
- Test Suite - Studio
- Extensions
- Troubleshooting
- About troubleshooting
- Microsoft App-V support and limitations
- Internet Explorer X64 troubleshooting
- Microsoft Office issues
- Identifying UI elements in PDF with Accessibility options
- Repairing Active Accessibility support
- Automating Applications Running Under a Different Windows User
- Validation of large Windows-legacy projects takes longer than expected
Repairing Active Accessibility support
This page describes how to diagnose and repair issues caused by broken Active Accessibility support.
The Active Accessibility support can be broken after:
- Installing certain Windows updates
- Uninstalling/upgrading certain applications such as Adobe Acrobat Reader or Microsoft Office
IAccessible registry entries, such as File Explorer, Internet Explorer or Microsoft Office.
For example, when using UI Explorer to indicate UI elements in Windows File Explorer, instead of individual elements, the entire area is selected.
IAccessible registry entries were overwritten and became corrupted.
IAccessible, but don’t restore default settings on uninstall/upgrade.
Starting with UiPath.UIAutomation.Activities version 23.4, this issue has been permanently fixed.
The misconfiguration of these Windows Registry keys no longer interferes with automating applications using Active Accesibility.
If you can't upgrade your UiPath.UIAutomation.Activities package to version 23.4 or higher, you can solve this issue by manually repairing the Windows Registry keys.
IAccessible registry entries became corrupted, you need to open the Windows Registry Editor and verify whether the following keys are
missing or have other values, and add/modify them if necessary.
Below are the values that should be present in the registry.
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{618736E0-3C3D-11CF-810C-00AA00389B71}
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{618736E0-3C3D-11CF-810C-00AA00389B71}]
@="IAccessible"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{618736E0-3C3D-11CF-810C-00AA00389B71}\ProxyStubClsid32]
@="{00020424-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{618736E0-3C3D-11CF-810C-00AA00389B71}\TypeLib]
@="{1EA4DBF0-3C3B-11CF-810C-00AA00389B71}"
"Version"="1.1"Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{618736E0-3C3D-11CF-810C-00AA00389B71}]
@="IAccessible"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{618736E0-3C3D-11CF-810C-00AA00389B71}\ProxyStubClsid32]
@="{00020424-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{618736E0-3C3D-11CF-810C-00AA00389B71}\TypeLib]
@="{1EA4DBF0-3C3B-11CF-810C-00AA00389B71}"
"Version"="1.1"HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WOW6432Node\Interface\{618736E0-3C3D-11CF-810C-00AA00389B71}
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\Interface\{618736E0-3C3D-11CF-810C-00AA00389B71}]
@="IAccessible"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\Interface\{618736E0-3C3D-11CF-810C-00AA00389B71}\ProxyStubClsid32]
@="{00020424-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\Interface\{618736E0-3C3D-11CF-810C-00AA00389B71}\TypeLib]
@="{1EA4DBF0-3C3B-11CF-810C-00AA00389B71}"
"Version"="1.1"Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\Interface\{618736E0-3C3D-11CF-810C-00AA00389B71}]
@="IAccessible"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\Interface\{618736E0-3C3D-11CF-810C-00AA00389B71}\ProxyStubClsid32]
@="{00020424-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\Interface\{618736E0-3C3D-11CF-810C-00AA00389B71}\TypeLib]
@="{1EA4DBF0-3C3B-11CF-810C-00AA00389B71}"
"Version"="1.1".reg files. After a backup of the existing registry entries, you can run the .reg files to repair these entries automatically.
