MacOS – How to escape modal dialog in Safari

If you look at the Console application (/Applications/Utilities/Console.app), you can see system logs of errors and other activity. If you open it and view log entries for the time of the error, you may be able to find the source and purpose of the message.

To get information about UI elements in Accessibility Inspector, you just need to hover the mouse over whichever UI element you want to know more about. For the purposes of closing this security warning, you need to be able to identify which button and which window. So if you hover the mouse over the title bar of the window you can see the AXValue is "Security Warning". And if you hover over the Continue button you can see the AXTitle value is "Continue".

From this you can create the following AppleScript which will close this dialog...

tell application "System Events" to tell process "java"
    click button "Continue" of window "Security Warning"
end tell

Also you can get AppleScript to tell you the actual names of the buttons in the window with. Please note that it will list the three standard Close, Minimise, Maximise traffic light buttons in the top left corner as well.

tell application "System Events" to tell process "java"
    get name of every button of window "Security Warning"
end tell

Hope that helps.