You can access home screen icons with a bluetooth keyboard using
VoiceOver commands as has been documented earlier in this thread. There
doesn't appear to be a way to do it without VoiceOver, but since
VoiceOver is available to everyone, here's an article directed at
sighted users who want to use a bluetooth keyboard and who don't want to
reach over and touch their iPhone to perform the home screen navigation:
http://decadentwaste.net/decadentwaste/2011/03/navigate-using-a-bluetooth-keyboard-on-your-ios-device
Feature requests are like questions, the only bad feature request is the
one that's never asked. Chances are, if you would like this feature, so
would others. Get it out there and let the market place sort out the rest.
On 04/03/2013 06:10 PM, KK2006 wrote:
Everyone has their preference. Not ever having bought a bt keyboard
before, I was unawhare that this feature was not available at all and
that I would still have to use my iPhone home screen to activate icons.
Keep in mind, that some of us are just not as informed.
Now that I know, I will *use what's available.**
----- Original Message -----
*From:* David Chittenden <mailto:dchitten...@gmail.com>
*To:* viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
*Sent:* Wednesday, April 03, 2013 5:09 PM
*Subject:* Re: Logitech Blue Tooth Tablet Keyboard
Well, you can spend thousands of dollars and get a specialised note
taker PDA for the blind, you can spend even more thousands of
dollars to develop one yourself, or you can adjust to what is available.
As I told my daughter whilst she was growing up, "You can want all
you want." :-)
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
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Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
Sent from my iPhone
On 04/04/2013, at 10:32, "KK2006" <kking2...@sbcglobal.net
<mailto:kking2...@sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
Understandable. I'm not sighted though and I want something
different, lol.
----- Original Message -----
*From:* David Chittenden <mailto:dchitten...@gmail.com>
*To:* viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
*Sent:* Wednesday, April 03, 2013 3:56 PM
*Subject:* Re: Logitech Blue Tooth Tablet Keyboard
When VO is not turned on, the keyboard is only used for
entering text into edit fields. Just as with the mouse,
sighted people overwhelmingly prefer directly interacting with
visual icons and images on the touch-screen over working
through a less direct keyboard interface.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
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Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
Sent from my iPhone
On 04/04/2013, at 5:20, Les Kriegler <kriegle...@gmail.com
<mailto:kriegle...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I could be long, but I don't think Kayla is a voiceover user.
But there has to be keyboard commands as this keyboard is
sold to the general public.
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 3, 2013, at 10:44 AM, "Alan Paganelli"
<alanandsuza...@earthlink.net
<mailto:alanandsuza...@earthlink.net>> wrote:
Here are the ones I've been saving.
iOS Keyboard shortcut commands
VoiceOver VO keys = Control plus Option
General navigation
Keys Action
VO plus left or right Select previous or next item
VO plus up or down Performs or move to the selected rotor
option
VO plus Space Activate the selected item. (open app, press
button)
VO plus H Go to home screen
VO plus H 2 times Open/close multitask pane
Escape Go back, cancel, close pop-up
Cmd plus Tab Switch to next app or hold Shift for previous
VO plus A Read all from first object in selected area
VO plus B Read all from selected item
VO plus M Move to status bar
VO plus I Open Item Chooser for current area
VO plus F Search and go to match with Enter
VO plus G Next search match, hold Shift for previous
Handling VoiceOver
Keys Action
Control Pause/resume speech
VO plus S Toggle speech off/on
VO plus Shift plus S Toggle Screen Curtain on/off
VO plus Cmd plus up or down Adjust the selected speech
rotor option
VO plus Cmd plus left or right Change the speech rotor setting
VO plus / (slash) Add label to selected item
VO plus K Start VoiceOver training, Escape to exit
Quick Nav Commands
Turn on "Quick Nav" to use these commands by pressing left
plus right keys at the same time
Keys Action
up plus down Activate the selected item. (open app, press
button)
left or right Selects the previous or next item
up or down Performs or move to the selected rotor option
up plus left or right Change to next or previous rotor setting
Option plus left or right Move to next or previous
horizontal screen/page
Option plus up or down Move/scroll up or down the screen/page
Control plus up or down Select the first or last item in
the area
Control plus left or right Go to next or previous
container/area
Safari Web Shortcuts
Hold Shift for previous
Keys Action
H Next heading
1 to 6 Next respective heading level 1–6
L Next link
S Next text element
W Next landmark
R Next text field
X Next list
T Next table
M Next element of same type
I Next image
B Next button
C Next form element
Other keyboard commands with Quicknav off
Esther Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:03:26 -0700
(from:
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg26148.html
Apple Wireless Keyboard, also works on the AmazonBasics KT-1081
eject - toggle showing / hiding virtual keyboard (this key
is at top right)
tab - move to next text field (e.g. in mail)
shift tab - move to previous text field
command z - undo
shift command z - redo
command x - cut
command c - copy
command v - paste
command a - select all
control - stops and restarts VoiceOver speaking (e.g., in
the middle of a two finger flick up or down to read all)
command space - change to next language keyboard (when you
have more than one selected)
shift command space - change to previous language keyboard
General movement and selection commands with command,
option, and arrow key combinations. (For these sequences,
holding down the shift key will select as well as move your
cursor. On a PC keyboard, the control key can be substituted
for some, but not all instances of the command key. On some
keyboards, the Windows key may replace the function of the
command key.)
left / right arrows - move left or right by character
shift left / right arrows - select left or right by character
option left / right arrows - move left or right by word
shift option left / right arrows - select left or right by word
command left / right arrows - move to beginning or end of line
shift command left / right arrows - select to beginning or
end of line
up / down arrows - move up or down by line
shift up / down arrows - select up or down by line
command up arrow - move to start of document (page up on PC
keyboard)
shift command up arrow - select to start of document
command down arrow - move to end of document (page down on
PC keyboard)
shift command down arrow - select to end of document
delete - delete backward by character
option delete - delete backward by word
(forward delete sequences with the Fn key do not work)
some emacs-like control key sequences work:
control a - move to beginning of line
control e - move to end of line
control b - move back a character
control f - move forward a character
control h - backwards delete a character
control k - delete to end of line
control m - insert line feed (blank line)
Selections are slightly tricky, because they are based on
your current insertion point, so if you select a few words
forward by holding down the shift key and tapping the option
key, then press command up arrow to move to the start of the
document without releasing the shift key, you will end up
reversing the selection of the words you started with, and
selecting all of your document from your starting point to
the beginning of the document. Similarly, when you arrow
down from the middle of a line and hold down the shift key,
you select all characters from where you started to where
you move to in the middle of the next line. On a Mac you can
check your selections while you work, but here you can't.
For more background details on how these commands work for
selection, see my archived post on "Moving and Selecting in
Cocoa Apps:
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg02038.html
Media Controls
F3 - Previous Track
F4 - Play/pause
F5 - Next track
F6 - Mute/unmute
F7 - Decrease Volume
F8 - Increase volume
----- Original Message -----
*From:* KK2006 <mailto:kking2...@sbcglobal.net>
*To:* viphone list <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
*Sent:* Tuesday, April 02, 2013 8:37 PM
*Subject:* Logitech Blue Tooth Tablet Keyboard
Hi all,
I just bought the Logitech Tablet Blue Tooth Keyboard
from Best Buy this evening. It has a great feel. It
was originally designed for the ipad but seems to work
with the iPhone 4S just fine.
Having said that, I don't know where to even begin
accessing the homescreen button and cannot seem to click
on any icons. There is a fifteen day money back
garentee, if it doesn't work, I can always send it back...
Thanks for any help you may be able to provide!
Kindly,
Kayla K
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