Testing task: Navigate backwards to a spin button in reading mode

With JAWS in reading mode, describe how JAWS behaves when performing task "With the reading cursor on the 'Navigate backwards from here' link, navigate to the 'Year' spin button."

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 the date picker to March 19, 2021, hides the previous/next arrow buttons and sets focus on a link after the 'Year' spin button.
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 backwards from here' link, navigate to the 'Year' spin button.
5. Using the following commands, With the reading cursor on the 'Navigate backwards from here' link, navigate to the 'Year' spin button.
   • Up Arrow
   • Shift+Tab

Success Criteria

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

1. Role 'group' is conveyed
2. Name of the group is conveyed as: 'Choose a Date current value is Friday, March nineteenth, 2021'
3. Role 'spin button' is conveyed
4. Name 'Year' is conveyed
5. Value '2021' is conveyed

Record Results

Navigate backwards to a spin button in reading mode