owners:
- [email protected]
- file://ui/accessibility/OWNERS
caption: Enable the browser's <ph name="UIA_NAME">UI Automation</ph> accessibility framework provider on
Windows
desc: |-
Enables the <ph name="UIA_NAME">UI Automation</ph> accessibility framework
provider in <ph name="PRODUCT_NAME">$1<ex>Google Chrome</ex></ph> for use by
accessibility tools.
This policy is supported in
<ph name="PRODUCT_NAME">$1<ex>Google Chrome</ex></ph> for a one-year
transition period to allow enterprise administrators to control the deployment
of the browser's <ph name="UIA_NAME">UI Automation</ph> accessibility
framework provider. Accessibility and other tools that use the
<ph name="UIA_NAME">UI Automation</ph> accessibility framework to interoperate
with the browser may require updates to function properly with the browser's
<ph name="UIA_NAME">UI Automation</ph> provider. Administrators can use this
policy to temporarily disable the browser's
<ph name="UIA_NAME">UI Automation</ph> provider (thereby reverting to the old
behavior) while they work with vendors to provide updates to impacted tools.
When set to false, <ph name="PRODUCT_NAME">$1<ex>Google Chrome</ex></ph> only
enables its <ph name="MSAA_NAME">Microsoft Active Accessibility</ph>
provider. Accessibility and other tools that use the newer
<ph name="UIA_NAME">UI Automation</ph> accessibility framework to interoperate
with the browser will communicate with it by way of a compatibility shim in
<ph name="MS_WIN_NAME">Microsoft® Windows®</ph>.
When set to true, <ph name="PRODUCT_NAME">$1<ex>Google Chrome</ex></ph>
enables its <ph name="UIA_NAME">UI Automation</ph> provider in addition to its
<ph name="MSAA_NAME">Microsoft Active Accessibility</ph> provider.
Accessibility and other tools that use the newer
<ph name="UIA_NAME">UI Automation</ph> accessibility framework to interoperate
with the browser will communicate directly with it.
When left unset, the variations framework in <ph
name="PRODUCT_NAME">$1<ex>Google Chrome</ex></ph> is used to enable or disable
the provider.
Support for this policy setting will end in <ph
name="PRODUCT_NAME">$1<ex>Google Chrome</ex></ph> 136.
supported_on:
- chrome.win:125-
features:
dynamic_refresh: false
per_profile: false
type: main
schema:
type: boolean
items:
- caption: Enable the <ph name="UIA_NAME">UI Automation</ph> provider.
value: true
- caption: Disable the <ph name="UIA_NAME">UI Automation</ph> provider.
value: false
- caption: The <ph name="UIA_NAME">UI Automation</ph> provider will be enabled or disabled via the variations framework.
value: null
default: null
example_value: false
tags: []