Q:  8.4.19  12:50 pm do you find that in those no-keyboard-shortcut, no-menu-item ones you usually get click static text?
A: in many cases when there's no keyboard shortcut and no menu item, it often is accessible by applescript. but there is a specific kind of situation where clicking something in real life makes something happen, and the automator recorder claims that what i did can be translated to applescript as "click static text", and yet putting that into applescript yields "missing value." in approximately half of these situations, the parent item is "row", and if that's the case, i have found a secret solution of saying "select row."