With the iPhone 16 Pro, pressing space with s does not activate the status bar using a braille display

Simply tap the Status bar on your device. If you don't have this as an option, you can also get to the information found in the status bar using the braille keyboard. Press space with 2-5 to launch the control center and thenn press space with dot 1 to review most of the status bar information. The only things missing are the time and date. To access the time and date, press space with 4-6 to launch the Notification Center and then press space with dot 1 to get back to the time. One more press of this command will show the date.