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, at 21:24, 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, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> That's great thanks. >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: [email protected] >>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan C. >>>> Cohn >>>> Sent: 01 September 2009 16:16 >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> 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: [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
