Here is what I found as a JAWS accessible way of setting the screen
rotation, both to set it to what you want, and how to know for sure how it
is set.
This is for Windows 7; sorry I do not have instructions for earlier or later
operating systems.
Go to the control panel, display, then screen orientation. You will land in
the box for picking the monitor; I have just the built-in, so had only that
one choice. Press the tab key and you will be in the "resolution" box. Tab
once more and you are where you will make the changes, screen orientation.
This gives you the 4 choices in a vertical list box, so use the up and down
arrow keys. The 4 choices are landscape, portrait, and reverse landscape
and reverse portrait. JAWS nicely reports all of this, so you know the
current setting.
If you want to skip all the control panel steps, press the Windows key to
get the search box, enter "rotate screen" without the " signs, press enter,
and you should be taken directly to the correct level of the control panel,
and you simply tab 3 times to the screen orientation list box as described
above.
Please note that I just happen to type "rotate screen" as a guess, and
Windows 7 translated that request and put me in the "change screen" options,
and a down arrow took me to "change screen orientation". After the first
time I did that search, I now need type only the first few letters of the
word "rotate", and it pops to that control panel setting. I had not before
realized the Windows 7 search box was so smart!
Hope this helps.
Tim Ford
-----Original Message-----
From: Carolyn Arnold via Jfw
Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2015 3:20 PM
To: The Jaws for Windows support list.
Cc: Carolyn Arnold
Subject: Re: Screen rotation.
Gregg, you may know that the iPhone does alert Landscape if it is turned,
then says Portrait, if it is back in the position I ordinarily use. So, that
seems like a valid question, is there a way to know one way or another other
than going into Font?
GIFT (God is forever true),
Carolyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Nickel via Jfw" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: "Greg Nickel" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2015 5:52 PM
Subject: Screen rotation.
Hi all.
From time to time my screen orientation gets rotated 90 degrees. I only
know this because my wife happens to see my screen. When it is brought to
my attention, I then recollect that I have frequent cursor jumping and
other
minor focus issues. Since they were only annoyances that I chalked up to
the idiosyncrasies of JAWS I didn't know to fix the problem.
So, here's a couple questions:
1. What is the shortcut to re-orientate or rotate the screen?
2. Is there any audio cue that can be assigned to indicate the
screen
has rotated?
Not sure what the shortcut key is that rotates the screen but it must be
similar or adjacent to one that I use since this seems to happen to me
reasonably frequently.
Thanks.
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