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fix(a11y): give VoiceOver a name for every editor menu, and fail when a view shows "Unknown VPN" again - #163

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#159 made a VPN the app cannot name show as "VPN" instead of the English "Unknown VPN" in three places: the Status page's tunnel list, its Act on menu, and the route editor's VPN menu. Only VPNType.displayLabel had a test. If one of those views stopped calling it, every test would still pass.

UnknownVPNRenderTests draws the real StatusTab and RouteEditorSheet offscreen in English, Spanish and French. The fake state holds one tunnel labelled "Unknown VPN" on utun7, plus a second one on utun9 that is not connected, for the editor. The tests read what each view shows and check that:

  • the tunnel row's label, right after utun7, is "VPN"
  • the Act on menu's items are exactly [Automático (recomendado), VPN · utun7] in Spanish and the matching list in English and French
  • the route editor's menu items are exactly [VPN principal (automática), VPN · utun7, VPN · utun9 — no conectada] in Spanish and the matching list in English and French
  • "Unknown VPN" appears nowhere in either view

Text comes from the accessibility tree. Menu items come from the menu's pop-up button, which holds them while the menu is closed. The renders show the menus closed, so a PNG shows only the selected item, and the test checks the full item list through the pop-up button.

So the test does not read the Mac's own tunnels, RouteEditorSheet now takes an optional selectableLinks, the same way StatusTab already takes a snapshot. The app never passes it, so its behaviour is unchanged.

Two test-only tricks make this work:

  • Under XCTest, Bundle.main is the test runner, which has no translations. While a language is set, the test points Bundle.main at that language's .lproj folder in the source tree. Replacing localizedString(forKey:value:table:) instead does not work, because SwiftUI's Text and String(localized:) never call it.
  • SwiftUI only builds its accessibility tree for an assistive client. Before that, the page reads as one empty group. The test sets AXEnhancedUserInterface on the app in setUp and clears it in tearDown.

Renders (Spanish and French)

Status page, Spanish and French:

Status page in Spanish
Status page in French

Route editor, Spanish and French:

Route editor in Spanish
Route editor in French

Nothing else in English shows on either view in Spanish or French. "ACME VPN" is the route's name from the fake state. "DNS", "HTTP CONNECT" and "SOCKS5" are the same in every language.

Proof the tests can fail

On a scratch copy I changed each spot to show the raw label, ran the tests, then synced the copy back from the branch:

  • Tunnel list (Text(link.label)): testTheTunnelListShowsVPN failed with ("Unknown VPN") is not equal to ("VPN") - es: the tunnel row's label. It failed the same way in en and fr.
  • Act on menu: testTheActOnPickerShowsVPN failed with [["Automático (recomendado)", "Unknown VPN · utun7"]] is not equal to [["Automático (recomendado)", "VPN · utun7"]] - es: the Act on picker. It failed the same way in en and fr.
  • Route editor menu, both branches: testTheRouteEditorPickerShowsVPN failed with [["VPN principal (automatique)", "Unknown VPN · utun7", "Unknown VPN · utun9 — non connecté"]] is not equal to .... It failed the same way in en and es.

The first round, before the Bundle.main swap reached SwiftUI, failed with "Automatic (recommended)" where "Automático (recomendado)" was expected. So the Spanish and French checks do depend on the language switch.

Full suite on a Mac mini: Executed 1495 tests, with 10 tests skipped and 0 failures.

Set VPNB_RENDERS=<dir> to write the six PNGs again.

VoiceOver names for every editor menu

Six menus and segmented controls were Picker(""), so VoiceOver read them as just "pop-up button" or "radio group". This PR names all six: the route editor's Type, Tailscale Peer and VPN controls, the rule editor's Match and Service controls, and General's Refresh Interval menu. Each now takes its visible caption key with .labelsHidden(), which is how the Status page's Act on menu is built. Every key already existed in en, es and fr. No Picker("") is left in Sources/. "VPN" is "VPN" in Spanish and French too, so for that one menu the es and fr checks prove it has a name, not that a translation differs. Hiding the label also drops the empty label slot, so the route editor's VPN menu now lines up under its caption. The rule editor's layout is unchanged; I compared renders with and without the change.

While rendering the Tailscale Peer menu I found its "exit node" suffix in English in Spanish and French. It went through a plain String, so nothing looked it up and the localization check could not see it. It is now String(localized: "\(peer.name) · exit node") with "%@ · nodo de salida" and "%@ · nœud de sortie".

Route editor, Tailscale peer, in Spanish
Route editor, Tailscale peer, in French
Rule editor in Spanish
Rule editor in French

The render test reads the name of every pop-up button and radio group from the accessibility tree. It checks the route editor (VPN and Tailscale Peer types), the rule editor and the General page in en, es and fr, and uses the Status page's "Act on" as a control. To render the peer menu, RouteEditorSheet also takes an optional peers list, which the app never passes.

Mutation checks on a scratch copy:

  • VPN menu back to Picker(""): XCTAssertEqual failed: ("[""]") is not equal to ("["VPN"]") - es: the VPN picker's name, the same in en and fr.
  • Type, Match and Service back to Picker(""), and the suffix back to a plain String: ("["", "VPN"]") is not equal to ("["Tipo", "VPN"]") - es: the Type control's and the VPN picker's names, ("["", ""]") is not equal to ("["Correspondance", "Service"]") - fr: the rule editor's controls, ("[["home-exit · exit node"]]") is not equal to ("[["home-exit · nodo de salida"]]") - es: the peer menu. Three tests failed with 14 failures across en, es and fr.

The branch merges origin/main at b3964c2 (#162) with no conflicts. Full suite on the merged head: Executed 1505 tests, with 10 tests skipped and 0 failures. scripts/check-localizations.py: All 598 localizable keys in Sources/ have es and fr entries, with the same specifiers, and every catalog key is used.

Seen but not touched: the rule editor's form sits centred in the sheet instead of against its left edge, and it does that with or without this change.

…N" again

#159 made the Status page's tunnel list, its Act on menu and the route
editor's VPN menu show "VPN" for a tunnel the app could not name, but only
VPNType.displayLabel had a test. A view that stopped calling it would pass.

UnknownVPNRenderTests draws the real StatusTab and RouteEditorSheet
offscreen in English, Spanish and French with one unnamed tunnel, reads
the text from the accessibility tree and the menu items from the pop-up
buttons, and checks "VPN" in each spot and "Unknown VPN" nowhere.

RouteEditorSheet takes the tunnels as an optional argument, as StatusTab
already takes its snapshot, so a test can show fixed tunnels instead of
reading the Mac's own.
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RouteEditorSheet accepts optional VPN links and skips tunnel loading when links are supplied. New offscreen tests check unknown VPN labels in three UI locations and three languages.

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VPN label rendering

Layer / File(s) Summary
Supply tunnel data to the route editor
Sources/VPNBypassCore/RoutesTab.swift
RouteEditorSheet initializes its selection from supplied links. When links are supplied, it skips loading Tailscale peers and VPN links.
Check unknown VPN labels in rendered views
Tests/VPNBypassTests/UnknownVPNRenderTests.swift, docs/CHANGELOG.md
Offscreen tests check the Status page tunnel row, Act on menu, and route editor picker in English, Spanish, and French. The changelog describes these tests.

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This change adds localized rendering tests and an optional test-only input to the route editor, so app behavior is unchanged. A test may leave a process-wide accessibility setting disabled for later tests; this is a minor follow-up.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to e0752

The inspected app caller retains the existing tunnel-loading and route-saving behavior. The alternate input is used by rendering tests, with no demonstrated new attacker-accessible path. Uncertainty remains around isolation of shared test-process state.

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  • inferred — The demonstrated alternate-input exposure is an in-process rendering fixture using fixed tunnel identifiers, not a network or cross-tenant entrypoint. Its shared localization and accessibility effects are within the test process; package target membership separates this code from the application executable.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • inferred — The initializer changes the editor’s data source, not privileged execution authority. The inspected production caller still saves through RoutesTab and RouteManager, and the supplied-input fixture has no-op save and cancel callbacks. No bypass of that ownership boundary was demonstrated.
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Comment thread Tests/VPNBypassTests/UnknownVPNRenderTests.swift Outdated
tearDown turned AXEnhancedUserInterface off even when it was on before the test. It now restores the value setUp read, and setUp checks the value reads back.
The picker was Picker(""), so VoiceOver read it as an unnamed pop-up button. It now takes the field's caption, "VPN", with its label hidden, as the Status page's Act on menu does. The render test reads each menu's name from the accessibility tree in en, es and fr.
@GeiserX GeiserX changed the title test(i18n): fail when a view shows an unrecognised VPN as "Unknown VPN" again fix(a11y): name the route editor's VPN menu for VoiceOver, and fail when a view shows "Unknown VPN" again Oct 2, 2026
…efresh menu

Type, Tailscale Peer, Match, Service and Refresh Interval were Picker(""), so VoiceOver read them with no name. Each now takes its visible caption key with its label hidden. The Tailscale peer menu's "exit node" suffix went through a plain String and showed in English; it is a key now, translated in es and fr. The render test reads every pop-up button's and radio group's name in en, es and fr.
@GeiserX GeiserX changed the title fix(a11y): name the route editor's VPN menu for VoiceOver, and fail when a view shows "Unknown VPN" again fix(a11y): give VoiceOver a name for every editor menu, and fail when a view shows "Unknown VPN" again Oct 2, 2026
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GeiserX deleted the fix/unknown-vpn-render branch October 2, 2026 09:24
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