How to I show a tooltip using a keyboard shortcut?

Hi, does any one know how to show a tooltip for the currently active item in a web page using the keyboard? I can get tooltips to display using the mouse, but I'd like a keyboard shortcut too. Shift -F1 didn't help, nor Ctrl-F1.
Any ideas?
== This happened ==
Just once or twice
== I was writing a web page

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