Testing task: Navigate forwards to a 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 'W3C website' 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 'W3C website' 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 'W3C website' link.
  5. Using the following commands, With the reading cursor on the 'Navigate forwards from here' link, navigate to the 'W3C website' link.
    • U
    • Tab
    • Down Arrow

Success Criteria

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

  1. Role 'link' is conveyed
  2. Name 'W3C website' is conveyed.

Record Results

Navigate forwards to a link in reading mode

After 'U'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role 'link' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'W3C website' is conveyed.(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'Tab'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role 'link' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'W3C website' is conveyed.(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'Down Arrow'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role 'link' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'W3C website' is conveyed.(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors