Focus required for interactions about axswift

[soundflix]

Try to AXRaise the parent window of the element that you want to perform an action on.

[nameghino]

I tried sending AXRaise to both the Application object and to all its top level windows, still doesn't work.
However, I got it to work by using the NSWorkspace APIs and then calling activate(withOptions:) on the target app.

[soundflix]

What do you mean with "top-level windows"? A window is always first level above Application. And you have to raise the window that contains your target element, not all.
But some apps just don't behave so well with Accessibility.

[DavidMolnar-RS]

Some (not all) AX Objects for buttons and the like will have an attribute ".focused". Check if the ".focused" attribute is there and then set it to "true". Once you set this, then try your .performAction(.press). I found this was a requirement from Big Sur and later for some AX Objects. Use the Accessibility Inspector and see if an attribute "Keyboard Focused" is there and if it is set-able.