A vertical or horizontal scroll bar, which is part of the client area or is used in a control.

A special mouse pointer used to manipulate user interface elements such as windows. For example, resizing a window by dragging its lower-right corner.

A system sound, which is associated with various system events.

The system's mouse pointer.

An alert or a condition that a user should be notified about.

This role is used only for objects that represent an alert but are not associated with another user interface element, such as a message box, graphic, text, or sound.

Window

A window frame, which contains child objects such as a title bar, client, and other objects of a window.

A menu: a list of options, each with a specific action. This may be a top-level menu, a context menu, or a child menu.

A menu item you can select to carry out a command, select an option, or display another menu.

A tooltip that provides helpful hints.

A main window for an application.

Document

A document window.

This role applies only to MDI windows and refers to the object that contains the MDI title bar.

A pane within a frame or a document window.

Panes represent a grouping level that is lower than frames or document windows, but higher than individual controls.

Chart

A graphical image used to chart data.

A dialog box or message box.

Border

A window border.

Grouping

The object logically groups other objects.

There is not always a parent-child relationship between the grouping object and the objects it contains.

Separator

A visual division of a space into two areas.

A toolbar, which is a grouping of controls that provides easy access to frequently used features.

StatusBar

A status bar, which is an area at the bottom of a window and which displays information about the current operation, state of the application, or selected object.

Table

ColumnHeader

A column header, providing a visual label for a column in a table.

A row header, which provides a visual label for a table row.

Column

A cell within a table.

A cartoon-like graphic object, such as Microsoft Office Assistant, which is displayed to provide help to users of an application.

List

An item in a list box or in the list portion of a combo box, drop-down list box, or drop-down combo box.

An outline or a tree structure, such as a tree view control, that displays a hierarchical list in which you can expand and collapse branches.

An individual item within an outline or tree structure.

A page tab. The only child of a page tab control is a grouping object that has the contents of the associated page.

A property sheet.

Graphic

A picture.

StaticText

Read-only text, such as labels for other controls or instructions in a dialog box. Static text cannot be modified or selected.

Selectable text that can be edited or is designated as read-only.

A check box control: an option that is selected or cleared independently of other options.

An option button, which is one of a group of mutually exclusive options.

A combo box: an edit control with an associated list box that provides a set of predefined choices.

A SysDateTimePick32 date or calendar control

A progress bar, which dynamically shows how much of an operation in progress has completed.

Dial

A keyboard shortcut field used to enter a combination or sequence of keystrokes.

A slider,used to adjust a setting in particular increments between minimum and maximum values.

SpinButton

A graphical image that is used for diagram data.

An animation control whose content changes over time, such as a control that displays a series of bitmap frames.

A mathematical equation.

A button that expands a list of items.

A button that expands a menu.

A button that expands a grid.

Empty space between objects.

SplitButton

An edit control that is designed for an IP address.

OutlineButton

A clickable button element within an outline or tree structure

The object has no state or is in a default state.

The object has the keyboard focus.

The object is pressed.

The state of a three-state check box or toolbar button is not determined (neither selected nor cleared).

The object is designated read-only.

Default

This is the default button in a window.

The object's children that have OutlineItem role are hidden.

Busy

The object is not clipped to the boundary of its parent object, and it does not move automatically when the parent moves.

Indicates scrolling or moving text or graphics.

Animated

The object is programmatically hidden. For example, menu items are hidden until the menu is opened.

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The object is clipped or scrolled out of view, but it is not programmatically hidden.

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The object can be moved. For example, you can click the object's title bar and drag the object to a new location.

The object uses text-to-speech (TTS) technology to describe or announce itself.

The object is on the active window and is ready to receive keyboard focus.

The object is a hyperlink that has been visited (previously clicked).

Low-priority information that is not important to the user.

Important information that is not conveyed immediately to the user.

Important information to be immediately conveyed to the user.

The object is a password-protected edit control.

Sets the focus to the object and makes it the selection anchor.

This flag affects only the focus, not the selection.

The effect is similar to moving the focus manually by pressing an ARROW key while holding down the CTRL key in Windows Explorer or in any multiple-selection list box.

Selects the object and clears any previously selected objects in the container.

To change the focus or the selection anchor in addition to selecting the object, combine this flag with TakeFocus.

TakeSelection | TakeFocus is equivalent to single-clicking an item in Windows Explorer.

Alters the selection so that all objects between the selection anchor and this object take on the anchor object's selection state.

If the anchor object is not selected, the objects are removed from the selection.

If the anchor object is selected, the selection is extended to include this object and all the objects in between.

To specify the selection state to set, combine this flag with AddSelection or RemoveSelection.

To change the focus or the selection anchor in addition to setting the objects' selection state, combine this flag with TakeFocus.

The ExtendSelection | TakeFocus combination is equivalent to adding an item to a selection manually by holding down the SHIFT key and clicking an unselected object in Windows Explorer.

Do not combine this flag with TakeSelection.

Adds the object to the current selection; can result in a noncontiguous selection.

To change the focus or the selection anchor in addition to selecting the objects, combine this flag with TakeFocus.

The AddSelection | TakeFocus combination is equivalent to adding an item to a selection manually by holding down the CTRL key and clicking an unselected object in Windows Explorer.

Do not combine this flag with RemoveSelection or TakeSelection.

Removes the object from the current selection; can result in a noncontiguous selection.

To change the focus or the selection anchor in addition to deselecting the objects, combine this flag with TakeFocus.

The RemoveSelection | TakeFocus combination is equivalent to removing an item from a selection manually by holding down the CTRL key while clicking a selected object in Windows Explorer.

Do not combine this flag with AddSelection or TakeSelection.