Testing task: Select an option in a listbox popup

Describe how VoiceOver for macOS behaves when performing task "with focus on 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 sets focus on and expands the Combobox, and sets the focused option to 'Apple' without selecting it.
  3. Toggle Quick Nav OFF by pressing the Left Arrow and Right Arrow keys at the same time.
  4. with focus on the listbox popup, select the focused option.
  5. Using the following commands, with focus on the listbox popup, select the focused option.
    • Control+Option+Space
    • Enter
    • Space
    • Option+Up

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 'Favorite Fruit' is conveyed
  3. Text of the selected option ('Apple') is conveyed
  4. State of the combobox (collapsed) 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 'Favorite Fruit' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Text of the selected option ('Apple') is conveyed(required: mark output)
State of the combobox (collapsed) 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 'Favorite Fruit' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Text of the selected option ('Apple') is conveyed(required: mark output)
State of the combobox (collapsed) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'Space'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role 'combobox' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'Favorite Fruit' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Text of the selected option ('Apple') is conveyed(required: mark output)
State of the combobox (collapsed) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'Option+Up'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role 'combobox' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'Favorite Fruit' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Text of the selected option ('Apple') is conveyed(required: mark output)
State of the combobox (collapsed) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors