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by bitwize 793 days ago
Dragon NaturallySpeaking supports voice commands like "click OK" and responds accordingly. Its solution to the problem of Microsoft Office doing its own custom widget rendering was to OCR the text on widgets and buttons to determine their labels. You need something like this far, far more often than you think you do. Developers will flummox you, they will NOT use the provided APIs.