Hi, Tom. Just took a look at this. Unfortunately, pressing escape will close the mail app. One thing you could do is to use the arrow keys. Press the right and left arrow to turn quick nav on or off. It's a toggle. You can then use right and left arrows to move around the screen. Using left arrow will eventually get you to the back button. Pressing up and down arrow together will click the back button. You can use control up or down arrow to quickly move to the top or bottom of the screen. Not sure if she can do that. So, control up would quickly get you to the back button where you could then press up and down arrow simultaneously to click the back button. Hope this helps.
On Jul 31, 2014, at 7:54 PM, Eileen Misrahi <eileen.misr...@gmail.com<mailto:eileen.misr...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi Tom, This may be another solution for your student. There's an app called Voice Brief. Although it has some gestures in it, the app will read the first 5 or 10 items for whatever items are set up in the app such as weather, tweets, mail, etc. With mail, it will read the first couple of lines before one may want to open it. The app is compatible for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod. I also poked around accessibility under General in settings to see if there was a method to insert a sticky key function for the blue tooth keyboard like on the Macs in system preferences, but I didn't see anything promising. Best, Eileen Sent from my iPhone On Jul 31, 2014, at 6:58 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com<mailto:mehg...@icloud.com>> wrote: Escape will act as your back button, at least it should. Yes, the VO keystrokes can be difficult, and your student sounds like one for whom I'd recommend a RiVO (www.mobience.com<http://www.mobience.com/>). It is a mini keyboard, in a way, but it has single keys for read all, back, flick left/right, rotor commands, and so on. You can enter text with it, though it is difficult to get used to. The keys are small, as I said, and your student may run into problems with that, but then again maybe not. Still, though it is expensive, it might be worth a try. On Jul 31, 2014, at 8:36 PM, Tom Lange <lang...@gmail.com<mailto:lang...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi all, I have a somewhat perplexing situation that I ran into yesterday and will probably run into it again soon, hence my questions. I was working with an elderly student who was trying to use the mail app on her iPad with a Logitech bluetooth keyboard, as she has trouble performing typical Voiceover gestures including flicking, swiping, et cetera; because of tremors her hands just aren't steady enough to perform many gestures reliably. . The two-finger swipe down to start continuous reading of a message just confounded her, and from what I could tell, one practically had to be a contortionist to execute the VO+B command on the keyboard. To further complicate things, we couldn't find a Back button to take us back to the inbox. I'm looking for a simple and effective keyboard-based method for opening a message, reading it and returning to the inbox, then moving to the next message and repeating that process all over again. The student is using an iPad Air with the Logitech keyboard, and I was using an iPad Mini with a Logitech keyboard that fits the Mini. Any ideas from you Ipad users out there? Thanks in advance. 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