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. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
