Testing task: Navigate backwards to a tab list

Describe how VoiceOver for macOS behaves when performing task "Navigate to the tab list. Note: You may need to press certain commands (such as Control+Option+Left Arrow) multiple times to hear all information relating to the tab list."

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 activates the third tab in the tab list, and sets focus on the tab panel.
  3. Toggle Quick Nav OFF by pressing the Left Arrow and Right Arrow keys at the same time.
  4. Navigate to the tab list. Note: You may need to press certain commands (such as Control+Option+Left 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 Control+Option+Left Arrow) multiple times to hear all information relating to the tab list.
    • Shift+Tab
    • Ctrl+Option+Left
    • Shift+Control+Option+Command+J

Success Criteria

To pass this test, VoiceOver for macOS 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, 'Joke', is conveyed
  5. State of the focused tab, 'selected', is conveyed
  6. Position of the focused tab in the tab list, 3, is conveyed
  7. Number of tabs in the tab list, 3, is conveyed

Record Results

Navigate backwards to a tab list

After 'Shift+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, 'Joke', is conveyed(required: mark output)
State of the focused tab, 'selected', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Position of the focused tab in the tab list, 3, 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 'Ctrl+Option+Left'

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, 'Joke', is conveyed(required: mark output)
State of the focused tab, 'selected', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Position of the focused tab in the tab list, 3, 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 'Shift+Control+Option+Command+J'

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, 'Joke', is conveyed(required: mark output)
State of the focused tab, 'selected', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Position of the focused tab in the tab list, 3, 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