Testing task: Navigate to the next column containing a link in a grid in reading mode

With JAWS in reading mode, describe how JAWS behaves when performing task "Navigate to the next column containing a link 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 the second cell of the second row in 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 next column containing a link in the grid.
  5. Using the following commands, Navigate to the next column containing a link in the grid.
    • U
    • Control+Alt+Right

Success Criteria

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

  1. Text of the column header ('Description') is conveyed
  2. Role 'link' is conveyed
  3. Name 'Cash Deposit' is conveyed
  4. coordinates of the cell (column 3, row 2) are conveyed

Record Results

Navigate to the next column containing a link in a grid in reading mode

After 'U'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Text of the column header ('Description') is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role 'link' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'Cash Deposit' is conveyed(required: mark output)
coordinates of the cell (column 3, row 2) are conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'Control+Alt+Right'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Text of the column header ('Description') is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role 'link' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'Cash Deposit' is conveyed(required: mark output)
coordinates of the cell (column 3, row 2) are conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors