Testing task: Navigate backwards to an option in a listbox popup

Describe how VoiceOver for macOS behaves when performing task "With focus on the listbox popup, navigate backwards by a single option."

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 and expands the Combobox, and sets the focused option to 'Apple'.
  3. Toggle Quick Nav OFF by pressing the Left Arrow and Right Arrow keys at the same time.
  4. With focus on the listbox popup, navigate backwards by a single option.
  5. Using the following commands, With focus on the listbox popup, navigate backwards by a single option.
    • Up Arrow
    • Control+Option+Up
    • 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. Text of the focused option in the popup ('Choose a Fruit') is conveyed
  2. State of the focused option in the popup (selected) is not conveyed
  3. Position of the focused option in the popup (1) is conveyed
  4. Number of options in the popup (13) is conveyed

Record Results

Navigate backwards to an option in a listbox popup

After 'Up Arrow'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Text of the focused option in the popup ('Choose a Fruit') is conveyed(required: mark output)
State of the focused option in the popup (selected) is not conveyed(required: mark output)
Position of the focused option in the popup (1) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Number of options in the popup (13) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'Control+Option+Up'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Text of the focused option in the popup ('Choose a Fruit') is conveyed(required: mark output)
State of the focused option in the popup (selected) is not conveyed(required: mark output)
Position of the focused option in the popup (1) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Number of options in the popup (13) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'Ctrl+Option+Left'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Text of the focused option in the popup ('Choose a Fruit') is conveyed(required: mark output)
State of the focused option in the popup (selected) is not conveyed(required: mark output)
Position of the focused option in the popup (1) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Number of options in the popup (13) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors