Testing task: Navigate forwards to a tab list in reading mode

With JAWS in reading mode, describe how JAWS behaves when performing task "Navigate to the tab list. Note: You may need to press certain commands (such as Down Arrow) multiple times to hear all information relating to the tab list."

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 tab list.
  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 tab list. Note: You may need to press certain commands (such as Down Arrow) multiple times to hear all information relating to the tab list.
  5. Using the following commands, Navigate to the tab list. Note: You may need to press certain commands (such as Down Arrow) multiple times to hear all information relating to the tab list.
    • 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 'tab list' is conveyed
  2. Name of the tab list, 'Entertainment', is conveyed
  3. Role of the selected item, 'tab', is conveyed
  4. Name of the focused tab, 'Nils Frahm', is conveyed
  5. State of the focused tab, 'selected', is conveyed
  6. Position of the focused tab, 1, is conveyed
  7. Number of tabs in the tab list, 3, is conveyed

Record Results

Navigate forwards to a tab list in reading mode

After 'Tab'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role 'tab list' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name of the tab list, 'Entertainment', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role of the selected item, 'tab', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name of the focused tab, 'Nils Frahm', is conveyed(required: mark output)
State of the focused tab, 'selected', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Position of the focused tab, 1, is conveyed(required: mark output)
Number of tabs in the tab list, 3, is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'Down Arrow'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role 'tab list' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name of the tab list, 'Entertainment', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role of the selected item, 'tab', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name of the focused tab, 'Nils Frahm', is conveyed(required: mark output)
State of the focused tab, 'selected', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Position of the focused tab, 1, is conveyed(required: mark output)
Number of tabs in the tab list, 3, is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors