Testing task: Navigate backwards to a mixed checkbox

Describe how VoiceOver for macOS behaves when performing task "With focus on the 'Navigate backwards from here' link, navigate to the 'All condiments' checkbox."

Test instructions

  1. Restore default settings for VoiceOver for macOS. 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 set focus on a link after the checkbox.
  3. Toggle Quick Nav OFF by pressing the Left Arrow and Right Arrow keys at the same time.
  4. With focus on the 'Navigate backwards from here' link, navigate to the 'All condiments' checkbox.
  5. Using the following commands, With focus on the 'Navigate backwards from here' link, navigate to the 'All condiments' checkbox.
    • Ctrl+Option+Left, then Ctrl+Option+Left, then Ctrl+Option+Left
    • Shift+Tab
    • Shift+Control+Option+Command+J

Success Criteria

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

  1. Role 'group' is conveyed
  2. Name 'Sandwich Condiments' is conveyed
  3. Role 'checkbox' is conveyed
  4. Name 'All condiments' is conveyed
  5. State 'mixed' is conveyed

Record Results

Navigate backwards to a mixed checkbox

After 'Ctrl+Option+Left, then Ctrl+Option+Left, then Ctrl+Option+Left'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role 'group' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'Sandwich Condiments' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role 'checkbox' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'All condiments' is conveyed(required: mark output)
State 'mixed' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'Shift+Tab'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role 'group' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'Sandwich Condiments' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role 'checkbox' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'All condiments' is conveyed(required: mark output)
State 'mixed' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'Shift+Control+Option+Command+J'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role 'group' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'Sandwich Condiments' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role 'checkbox' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'All condiments' is conveyed(required: mark output)
State 'mixed' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors