Internet Explorer automation

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Hi All,

I'm trying to build a small piece of automation to assist my disabled
brother. He moves through the links contained on a web page by repeated
invocations of the tab key. As he does so I want the automtion to provide him
with a synopsis of the link.

My question - is there a method or propery which will allow me to examine
the CURRENTLY SELECTED link in seperate running instance of Internet
Explorer.i.e examine the URL, link title etc. I am probably going to have to
control this from a Tcl app via TCOM library interface (provides COM
integration wihthin a Tcl env).

Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question.
 
Why is that a stupid question?

Microsoft is committed to making its software accessible. Try your
question in the accessibility newsgroup:

news://microsoft.public.windowsxp.accessibility

Also: There are probably third party programs for this purpose.
 
Thx Ted but I already know that none of the screen readers do exactly what
I'm trying to achieve for him - they are way too verbose and 'literal' - I
need to do some intelligent data mining/abstraction on the web page to give
him the info he really needs - hence I still need to try and find a way of
interrogating IE to see which link is currently selected ('in focus') - any
ideas??

Thx anyway for your response
 
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