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When testing real world enterprise apps, 99% of the time you end up with custom implementations for various elements. "isVisible" is just way to ambiguous on many levels. A reliable approach is to have an element inheritance hierarchy, have the base implementation use selenium's implementation, and override where needed with custom javascript snippets.