Hi Esther, Thanks for this. I installed it, and this bit was reasonably accessible. However, yet again the icon doesn't show up with VO. It does look a better option though.
Cheers Donal On 2 Sep 2009, at 02:03, Esther wrote: > > Hello Dónal, > > A bit of searching brought up another app that works with OpenVPN > called Viscosity. It seems to have very good reviews at macupdate: > > http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/27875 > > There's a 30-day free trial, information about how to automatically > import Tunnelblick settings (automatically detected the first time > you run Viscosity -- you're asked if you'd like to import the > Tunnelblick settings and you just click yes), and the application is > Apple Scriptable, so even if you run into a problematic service menu > icon you can still configure all the functions the way I did for > Caffeine. According to the macupdate user reports, the developer is > very responsive. If, after 30 days, you decide to purchase this > app, it's only $9 (US). Worth a shot? I haven't tried this, but as > a recent Cocoa app it seems like a good prospect for an accessible > interface, or one that can be made so. > > Cheers, > > Esther > > On September 01, 2009, Donal Fitzpatrick wrote: >> >> Hi Esther, >> >> The good news about this app is that it is open source, and is >> available under GPL. I've downloaded the source and will take a look >> at some stage over the next couple of weeks. >> >> Cheers >> >> Donal >> >> >> On 1 Sep 2009, Esther wrote: >> >>> >>> 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, 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 >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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