Testing task: Navigate to the first item in a menu

Describe how VoiceOver for macOS behaves when performing task "With focus on the 'Accessible Name and Description' menu item, navigate to the 'W3C Home Page' menu item."

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 opens the menu, and sets focus on 'Accessible Name and Description'.
  3. Toggle Quick Nav OFF by pressing the Left Arrow and Right Arrow keys at the same time.
  4. With focus on the 'Accessible Name and Description' menu item, navigate to the 'W3C Home Page' menu item.
  5. Using the following commands, With focus on the 'Accessible Name and Description' menu item, navigate to the 'W3C Home Page' menu item.
    • Home
    • Down Arrow

Success Criteria

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

  1. Role of the focused item, 'menu item', is conveyed
  2. Name of the focused item, 'W3C Home Page', is conveyed
  3. Position of the focused item in the menu (1) is conveyed
  4. Number of items in the menu (6) is conveyed

Record Results

Navigate to the first item in a menu

After 'Home'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role of the focused item, 'menu item', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name of the focused item, 'W3C Home Page', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Position of the focused item in the menu (1) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Number of items in the menu (6) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'Down Arrow'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role of the focused item, 'menu item', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name of the focused item, 'W3C Home Page', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Position of the focused item in the menu (1) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Number of items in the menu (6) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors