Anyone experiencing problems with Bluetooth Keyboards on IOS 7.1?

Apple has pretty much broken everything when it comes to bt keyboards in 7.1. This has been discussed extensively in the origional 7.1 blog post at: http://www.applevis.com/blog/apple/whats-new-and-changed-blind-and-low-vision-users-ios-71#comment-23061

I think saying that Apple pretty much broke support for BT keyboards is unfair. Yes there are issues with the BT keyboard support in iOS 7.1, but the same was also true for iOS 7.0, and in some ways the support has improved, while in other ways it was regressed. I have personally found that, under both iOS 7.0 and iOS 7.1, the issues can be largely worked around by switching to another app and switching back. This can be done quickly on the keyboard by holding Command and pressing Tab, then Shift-Tab. As for the issue the original poster had, it is possible that text input wasn't working at all, so nothing was put in the text field. As I said, switching apps will often fix the problem when it is encountered. I just had that very experience when preparing to reply here. Hope this will help you down the road.

I'm glad some are managing, but the reality is keyboard support is now quite a mess. Right from the start the phone takes forever to react to the keyboard when it is turned on. It goes down hill from there. Voiceover will say "is editing" in text fields but nothing that is typed on the keyboard actually gets input. It may work the first time, but not the next. Turning the keyboard off and back on will sometimes fix it, but what Voiceover reads can still be inconsistent. Thanks for the app switch tip though. I will have to try that and see if it works better than switching off the keyboard and then having to wait again while it takes its sweet time recognizing it. Success may also vary depending on the apps one uses. Overall though I have to classify this a major fail.

I have to clarify something I had said earlier. When asked if the workaround for the BT keyboard issues would prevent the unexpected entry of incorrect characters, I said that it would not fix that particular issue. I'm not so sure now. I only had that issue happen a few times since getting my iPad and Apple Wireless Keyboard back in December. It happened a half dozen times under iOS 7.0.x, and I had it happen twice under iOS 7.1. However, since I learned about the workarounds, I have yet to encounter the issue at all. It is possible, therefore, that it might be related after all, though my sample size is small and therefore inconclusive at this point. When I first had that problem, I thought it was a hardware issue with the keyboard itself, or perhaps an issue with the wireless communication, and not necessarily a problem with iOS. It happens when the iOS device thinks a modifier key is being pressed, such as Option, when it is not. I can therefore fix the issue when I encounter it simply by pressing the problematic modifier key, so it never really bothered me.