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 >>>> >>>> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > 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/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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