[vpn-help] Request for feature: Keyboard navigation of access manager.

[Matthew Grooms]

On 11/17/2010 6:16 PM, Aaron Howell wrote:
> hi,
> I hope this is the right place to ask this.
> I am a blind user, i use a screen reader called JAWS for Windows, from http://www.freedomscientific.com/
> On the whole I have found the Shrewsoft VPN product to be quite accessible with speech, however there is one area where it falls down, and I'm hoping it should be a relatively easy fix.
> When you first bring up the access manager, and are presented with a list of vpn profiles, there seems to be no means to select a profile via the keyboard,
> requiring use of the mouse to click on a profile, before the connection option becomes ungreyed under the file menu.
> While its possible to do this with a screen reader, its a painful process, and I'm wondering if it would be possible to make a change so that you could arrow between the available profiles and select one with space or enter, or similar.
> At the moment i only have one profile, but i still haven't found any key that will cause the profile to become selected without requiring a mouse click.
> I have updated to version 2.1.7, and I'm running it under Windows 7 64 bit.
> Any help would be most appreciated (especially if there's already a way to achieve what I'm trying to do and I've just missed it).

Hi Aaron,

I just added this item to the 2.2.0 todo list which has recently been 
brought up to date ...

http://www.shrew.net/software/todo

I'll make a pass at the keyboard navigation and tab order to ensure the 
software is usable without relying on mouse input. Thanks for your 
helpful feedback.

-Matthew