Testing task: Navigate to menubar in reading mode

With JAWS in reading mode, describe how JAWS behaves when performing task "Navigate to the 'Text Formatting' menubar"

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 just before the menubar.
  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. Navigate to the 'Text Formatting' menubar
  5. Using the following commands, Navigate to the 'Text Formatting' menubar
    • Up Arrow / Down Arrow
    • F / Shift+F

Success Criteria

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

  1. The role 'menubar' is conveyed
  2. The menubar name 'Text Formatting' is conveyed
  3. The menu item name "Font" is conveyed
  4. Availability of a submenu is conveyed
  5. The position of the item and number of items in the menubar are conveyed

Record Results

Navigate to menubar in reading mode

After 'Up Arrow / Down Arrow'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
The role 'menubar' is conveyed(required: mark output)
The menubar name 'Text Formatting' is conveyed(required: mark output)
The menu item name "Font" is conveyed(required: mark output)
Availability of a submenu is conveyed(required: mark output)
The position of the item and number of items in the menubar are conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'F / Shift+F'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
The role 'menubar' is conveyed(required: mark output)
The menubar name 'Text Formatting' is conveyed(required: mark output)
The menu item name "Font" is conveyed(required: mark output)
Availability of a submenu is conveyed(required: mark output)
The position of the item and number of items in the menubar are conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors