Hi Dónal, Very interesting, since I hadn't heard about Tunnelblick before. Your email did get through. We've seen this issue of the status menu not being accessible before. It ran all the way from the case for DropBox, where using the window chooser menu (VO-F2 twice) brought up an option for "untitled" that rooted to the icon in the status menu bar (so you could click), to more common instances where you can't find anything. See this post in the list archives:
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg06473.html (Apps with status bar menus that VoiceOver can't get to [was Re: Caffine application for the MAC]) In the case of the Caffeine app, they provided hooks for AppleScript control (and I just realized I had the typo of an extra "s" at the end of "application" in my command to turn the App off -- should have been: tell application "Caffeine" to turn off in case Gary needs to use this.) There's a link at the bottom of that post to a query about status bar accessibility in the Apple Developer mailing lists: http://lists.apple.com/archives/accessibility-dev/2009/Apr/msg00007.html You might be able to get around the issue by using Mouse keys to move along the status menu bar in the x direction, and just measure how many key presses you need to go from an icon that VoiceOver recognizes to the one for Tunnelblick, then click with your mouse on where the icon is supposed to be and bring up the menu. Could you not try writing to the developer? Cheers, Esther On Sep 1, 2009, Donal Fitzpatrick wrote: > > Hi Esther, > > Actually the Tunnelblick application is the one recommended by our sys > admins. It doesn't seem to be accessible with vo, however that could > be down to my profound ignorance rather than anything else. > > When launched, the application seems to put an icon into the status > menu near where the clock resides. However, VO doesn't seem to see it > there. I'm continuing to play with it to see if it can be customised > to put the icon in the doc, but I'm not optimistic. We'll know if the > installation has worked if this mail gets through I guess. *smile* > > Thanks for the information. > > Donal > On 1 Sep 2009, at 20:25, Esther wrote: > >> >> Hi Dónal and Jonathan, >> >> Isn't the built-in VPN software for the Mac under Snow Leopard using >> CISCO VPN? I don't know how that meets the Open VPN requirements. >> Most VoiceOver users appear to be using Vineserver and Chicken of the >> VNC. I also came across this Mac OS X Hints article with links to a >> blog for doing a set up using Open VNC and a GUI interface called >> Tunnelblick. Don't know whether it's accessible, but you can try it >> out: >> >> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?query=configure&story=20060803032236476 >> >> Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> On Sep 1, 2009, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: >> >>> >>> That's great thanks. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan C. >>> Cohn >>> Sent: 01 September 2009 16:16 >>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> Subject: Re: VPN client. >>> >>> There is some built in VPN software for the macintosh under the >>> network tab >>> of the system preferences. There is the ability to configure L2TP >>> over >>> IPSEC and PPTP >>> >>> If this meets your university requirements, then go to the >>> Networking area >>> of system preferences, click add service. select VPN as the >>> interface to >>> add, select either L2TP or PPTP (SL might have additional options) >>> and >>> proceed with the other prompts. You can probably hve somebody at >>> the >>> University or Apple Genius Bar help you if you need it. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Jonathan >>> >>> On Sep 1, 2009, at 7:32 AM, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> In order to access some core university services from outside the >>> campus I need to find an accessible VPN client which will work with >>> OPEN >>> VPN. Anyone any ideas? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Dónal >>> >>> Dr. Dónal Fitzpatrick >>> School of Computing, Dublin City University >>> Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland >>> Tel. +353(0)1 700 8929 >>> Fax. +353(0)1 7005442 >>> Email: dfitz...@computing.dcu.ie >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
