WPF equivalent of the AccesibleName property

Question

In WinForms applications it's possible to name controls for accessibility clients using the Control.AccessibleName property.

WPF controls are lacking this property, so I'm wondering how I can give an accessible name to controls in an WPF application.

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I've read the documentations and I know it all changed with the UIA but I still can't find a way to change this property. As stated in the doc, there are two required properties :

• Name
• Automation ID

I can find Automation ID but not the name. Where is it hidden ?

Answer 1

AutomationProperties.Name is the attached property you are looking for.

You can either specify it directly in XAML:

<object AutomationProperties.Name="name" .../>

Or using the getter/setters on AutomationProperties:

using System.Windows.Automation;
...
AutomationProperties.SetName(control, "name");

...or...

control.SetValue(AutomationProperties.NameProperty, "name");