Accessibility Overview: Dock Item Role

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Dock Item Role

An accessibility object of the Dock item role includes the following attributes as shown in Table B-9:

**Table B-9** Attributes associated with the Dock item role
Attribute	Required	Type	Description
Parent	Yes	UIElement	Accessibility object representing the Dock item’s parent
Position	Yes	Point value	Structure containing screen-position coordinates
Size	Yes	Size value	Structure containing width and height values
Help	No	String	Help-tag text for the Dock item
Subrole	Yes	String	Type of item represented by the Dock item
Title	Yes	String	Title displayed when the mouse cursor hovers over the Dock item
Enabled	Yes	Boolean	`true` if the user can interact with the color well; `false` otherwise
Top-Level UIElement	Yes	UIElement	Accessibility object representing the Dock item’s containing object
Selected	Yes	Boolean	`true` if the Dock item is visible; `false` otherwise
Children	Yes	UIElement array	Accessibility object representing the Dock item’s Dock menu
Shown Menu UIElement	Yes	UIElement array	Accessibility object representing the Dock item’s Dock menu (`NULL` if Dock menu is hidden)
URL	Yes	String	File path or URL of item represented by the Dock item
Is Application Running	Yes	Boolean	`true` if the application represented by the Dock item is currently running; `false` otherwise

An accessibility object of the Dock item role can support the following actions:

Press. When the press action is performed, the item represented by the Dock item is activated.
Show Menu. When the show menu action is performed, the Dock item’s Dock menu is displayed.

An accessibility object of the Dock item role should have one of the following subroles:

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Last updated: 2008-03-11

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