Testing task: Navigate backwards to a tab panel

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

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 sets focus on a link after 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 panel. Note: You may need to press certain commands (such as Control+Option+Left Arrow) multiple times to hear all information relating to the tab panel.
  5. Using the following commands, Navigate to the tab panel. Note: You may need to press certain commands (such as Control+Option+Left Arrow) multiple times to hear all information relating to the tab panel.
    • Shift+Tab
    • Ctrl+Option+Left

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 panel' is conveyed
  2. Name 'Nils Frahm' is conveyed
  3. Textual content of the tab panel is conveyed as 'Nils Frahm is a German musician, composer and record producer based in Berlin. He is known for combining classical and electronic music and for an unconventional approach to the piano in which he mixes a grand piano, upright piano, Roland Juno-60, Rhodes piano, drum machine, and Moog Taurus.'

Record Results

Navigate backwards to a tab panel

After 'Shift+Tab'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role 'tab panel' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'Nils Frahm' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Textual content of the tab panel is conveyed as 'Nils Frahm is a German musician, composer and record producer based in Berlin. He is known for combining classical and electronic music and for an unconventional approach to the piano in which he mixes a grand piano, upright piano, Roland Juno-60, Rhodes piano, drum machine, and Moog Taurus.'(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'Ctrl+Option+Left'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role 'tab panel' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'Nils Frahm' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Textual content of the tab panel is conveyed as 'Nils Frahm is a German musician, composer and record producer based in Berlin. He is known for combining classical and electronic music and for an unconventional approach to the piano in which he mixes a grand piano, upright piano, Roland Juno-60, Rhodes piano, drum machine, and Moog Taurus.'(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors