Thanks so much for your reply Esther, that's really useful.

Best wishes,

Danielle



On 1 May 2012, at 04:22 AM, Esther <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Danielle,
> 
> I'll paste in the answer I wrote on the mac-access list last November.  Now 
> that the viphone list has started archiving its posts at the Mail Archive web 
> pages, future searches for answers to similar questions should be much easier 
> by going to the Viphone public archive web site, listed in the second line at 
> the end of each post.  This is basically the umbrella Mail Archive web page:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/
> with the posting address for the mailing list appended in each case.  In this 
> case, all I had to do was go to the web page for the mac-access list, and 
> type into the search text box:
> "from:Esther notifications"
> (without the quotation marks). When I pressed return, the following result 
> popped up.  You won't be able to run such searches for the viphone list yet, 
> since the only viphone list posts archived there over past three years are 
> the ones that I cc'ed to the macvisionaries list, but I guarantee this will 
> make finding previously posted information easier in the future.
> 
> I'll add that there is no keyboard shortcut for the double tap and hold pass 
> through gesture.  The way that I think of the reason for this, is that the 
> pass through gesture indicates that you want to bypass the VoiceOver specific 
> gestures and use the "standard" gestures instead.  However, keyboard 
> navigation features are only supported when VoiceOver is turned on.  No 
> sighted user who employs "standard touch screen gestures" and uses a paired 
> Bluetooth keyboard can execute any commands except for text editing 
> functions.  So until Bluetooth keyboard navigation commands are supported for 
> sighted users outside of VoiceOver, no keyboard equivalent shortcut to 
> "bypass VoiceOver gestures" is going to work.
> 
> Open the notification center with VO-M and then Option-Up arrow.  The full 
> archived post from the Mac-access list Mail Archive pages, which includes 
> links to sources of keyboard shortcut information, is pasted in below by 
> signature.
> 
> HTH.  Cheers,
> 
> Esther
> 
> Subject: Re: Is there a iOS 5 keystroke to open Notifications?
> Date: November 12, 2011 
> To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility <[email protected]>
> 
> Hi Eric,
> 
> To open the notification center with your Bluetooth keyboard, after moving to 
> the status bar with VO-M use Option+Up arrow, which is the keyboard shortcut 
> equivalent to the 3 finger flick down to scroll the page.  To move to the 
> button to dismiss notification center use Control+Down arrow.
> 
> This is one of the cases where the format of the (older shortcuts) on hllf's 
> blog site may make it easier to look up shortcuts.  He uses the nice table 
> format that gives action, keystrokes with QuickNav off, keystrokes with 
> QuickNav on, and equivalent gesture.  Daniel's AxS lab pages of shortcuts are 
> up to date and very nice, but you have to associate terms to find the 
> shortcut.
> 
> hllf's VoiceOver Keyboard Commands for iOS 4.1 and Later:
> http://www.hllf.net/70
> 
> AxS Lab iOS VoiceOver Gesture, Keyboard & Braille Shortcuts:
> http://axslab.com/ios-shortcuts 
> 
> HTH.  Cheers,
> 
> Esther
> 
> 
> On Apr 30, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Danielle McCullough wrote:
> 
>> How can I find out the combination?
>> 
>> Is your keyboard a mini? Is it pocket sized?
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> 
>> Danielle
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 30 Apr 2012, at 11:55 PM, Jennie Facer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I know there is a way to activate the notification center with the 
>>> keyboard, but I don't remember the exact keystroke.
>>> 
>>> I use the Verbatim keyboard, which does take regular replacable tripple A 
>>> batteries. Is that what you wanted?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thank you so much!
>>> 
>>> Jenn
>>> To the world you are someone but to someone you are the world!
>>> 
>>> On Apr 30, 2012, at 1:53 PM, Danielle McCullough 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi there,
>>>> 
>>>> Does anyone know if there is a way to rec-reate, A, the double tap and 
>>>> hold, and B, the three finger swipe to pull down the notification centre 
>>>> on a bluetooth keyboard?
>>>> 
>>>> Also, does anyone know of any mini bluetooth keyboards that just take 
>>>> normal replaceable batteries at all?
>>>> 
>>>> Any responses would be really appreciated.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>> 
>>>> Best wishes,
>>>> 
>>>> Danielle
>>>> 
>>>> 
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