Testing task: Navigate to the first breadcrumb link in reading mode

With JAWS in reading mode, describe how JAWS behaves when performing task "With the reading cursor on the 'Navigate forwards from here' link, navigate to the 'WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices' link."

Test instructions

  1. Restore default settings for JAWS. For help, read Configuring Screen Readers for Testing.
  2. Activate the "Open test page" button below, which opens the example to test in a new window and runs a script that sets focus on a link before the 'WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices' link.
  3. Verify the Virtual Cursor is active by pressing Alt+Delete. If it is not, exit Forms Mode to activate the Virtual Cursor by pressing Escape.
  4. With the reading cursor on the 'Navigate forwards from here' link, navigate to the 'WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices' link.
  5. Using the following commands, With the reading cursor on the 'Navigate forwards from here' link, navigate to the 'WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices' link.
    • U
    • R, then Down Arrow, then Down Arrow
    • L, then Down Arrow
    • I
    • Tab
    • Down Arrow, then Down Arrow, then Down Arrow

Success Criteria

To pass this test, JAWS needs to meet all the following assertions when each specified command is executed:

  1. Role of the landmark region, 'navigation', is conveyed
  2. Role of the breadcrumbs container, 'list', is conveyed
  3. Number of list items, 4, is conveyed
  4. Role 'link' is conveyed
  5. Name 'WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices' is conveyed

Record Results

Navigate to the first breadcrumb link in reading mode

After 'U'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role of the landmark region, 'navigation', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role of the breadcrumbs container, 'list', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Number of list items, 4, is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role 'link' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'R, then Down Arrow, then Down Arrow'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role of the landmark region, 'navigation', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role of the breadcrumbs container, 'list', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Number of list items, 4, is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role 'link' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'L, then Down Arrow'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role of the landmark region, 'navigation', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role of the breadcrumbs container, 'list', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Number of list items, 4, is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role 'link' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'I'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role of the landmark region, 'navigation', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role of the breadcrumbs container, 'list', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Number of list items, 4, is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role 'link' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'Tab'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role of the landmark region, 'navigation', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role of the breadcrumbs container, 'list', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Number of list items, 4, is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role 'link' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'Down Arrow, then Down Arrow, then Down Arrow'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role of the landmark region, 'navigation', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role of the breadcrumbs container, 'list', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Number of list items, 4, is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role 'link' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors