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title: Orientations and Sort Directions
framework: applicationservices
role: collectionGroup
role_heading: API Collection
path: applicationservices/carbon_accessibility/orientations_and_sort_directions
---

# Orientations and Sort Directions

Define the values for the orientation and sort-direction attributes of some accessibility objects.

## Overview

Overview See kAXOrientationAttribute and kAXSortDirectionAttribute for more information on the attributes for which you can use these values.

## Topics

### Constants

- [kAXHorizontalOrientationValue](applicationservices/kaxhorizontalorientationvalue.md)
- [kAXVerticalOrientationValue](applicationservices/kaxverticalorientationvalue.md)
- [kAXUnknownOrientationValue](applicationservices/kaxunknownorientationvalue.md)
- [kAXAscendingSortDirectionValue](applicationservices/kaxascendingsortdirectionvalue.md)
- [kAXUnknownSortDirectionValue](applicationservices/kaxunknownsortdirectionvalue.md)

## See Also

### Accessibility Object Constants

- [Roles](applicationservices/carbon_accessibility/roles.md)
- [Subroles](applicationservices/carbon_accessibility/subroles.md)
- [Attributes](applicationservices/carbon_accessibility/attributes.md)
- [Parameterized Attributes](applicationservices/carbon_accessibility/parameterized_attributes.md)
- [Actions](applicationservices/carbon_accessibility/actions.md)
- [Notifications](applicationservices/carbon_accessibility/notifications.md)