Testing task: Select an option in a listbox popup

Describe how VoiceOver for macOS behaves when performing task "With focus on an option in the listbox popup, select the focused option."

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 expands the Combobox and places focus on 'Alabama' in the listbox popup.
  3. Toggle Quick Nav OFF by pressing the Left Arrow and Right Arrow keys at the same time.
  4. With focus on an option in the listbox popup, select the focused option.
  5. Using the following commands, With focus on an option in the listbox popup, select the focused option.
    • Control+Option+Space
    • Enter
    • Escape

Success Criteria

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

  1. Role 'combobox' is conveyed
  2. Name of the combobox ('State') is conveyed
  3. State of the combobox (collapsed) is conveyed
  4. Text of the selected option ('Alabama') is conveyed
  5. The ability to enter or edit text is conveyed
  6. The presence of autocomplete behavior is conveyed

Record Results

Select an option in a listbox popup

After 'Control+Option+Space'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role 'combobox' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name of the combobox ('State') is conveyed(required: mark output)
State of the combobox (collapsed) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Text of the selected option ('Alabama') is conveyed(required: mark output)
The ability to enter or edit text is conveyed(required: mark output)
The presence of autocomplete behavior is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'Enter'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role 'combobox' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name of the combobox ('State') is conveyed(required: mark output)
State of the combobox (collapsed) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Text of the selected option ('Alabama') is conveyed(required: mark output)
The ability to enter or edit text is conveyed(required: mark output)
The presence of autocomplete behavior is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'Escape'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role 'combobox' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name of the combobox ('State') is conveyed(required: mark output)
State of the combobox (collapsed) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Text of the selected option ('Alabama') is conveyed(required: mark output)
The ability to enter or edit text is conveyed(required: mark output)
The presence of autocomplete behavior is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors