Testing task: Navigate forwards to a grid in reading mode

With JAWS in reading mode, describe how JAWS behaves when performing task "Navigate to the first column header in the grid."

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 grid.
  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 first column header in the grid.
  5. Using the following commands, Navigate to the first column header in the grid.
    • T, then Down Arrow
    • Down Arrow

Success Criteria

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

  1. Role 'grid' is conveyed
  2. Name 'Transactions January 1 through January 6' is conveyed
  3. Number of columns (5) is conveyed
  4. Number of rows (7) is conveyed
  5. Text of the first column header ('Date') is conveyed
  6. Coordinates of the column header (column 1, row 1) are conveyed

Record Results

Navigate forwards to a grid in reading mode

After 'T, then Down Arrow'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role 'grid' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'Transactions January 1 through January 6' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Number of columns (5) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Number of rows (7) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Text of the first column header ('Date') is conveyed(required: mark output)
Coordinates of the column header (column 1, row 1) are conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'Down Arrow'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role 'grid' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'Transactions January 1 through January 6' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Number of columns (5) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Number of rows (7) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Text of the first column header ('Date') is conveyed(required: mark output)
Coordinates of the column header (column 1, row 1) are conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors