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

With NVDA in reading mode, describe how NVDA behaves when performing task "With the reading cursor on the 'Peter Lange-Müller' tab panel, Navigate to the 'Danish Composers' tab list."

Test instructions

  1. Restore default settings for NVDA. 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 fourth tab in the tab list, and sets focus on the tab panel.
  3. Ensure NVDA is in browse mode by pressing Escape. Note: This command has no effect if NVDA is already in browse mode.
  4. With the reading cursor on the 'Peter Lange-Müller' tab panel, Navigate to the 'Danish Composers' tab list.
  5. Using the following commands, With the reading cursor on the 'Peter Lange-Müller' tab panel, Navigate to the 'Danish Composers' tab list.
    • Shift+Tab
    • Up Arrow

Success Criteria

To pass this test, NVDA 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, 'Danish Composers', is conveyed
  3. Role of the selected item, 'tab', is conveyed
  4. Name of the focused tab, 'Peter Lange-Müller', is conveyed
  5. State of the focused tab, 'selected', is conveyed
  6. Position of the focused tab, 4, is conveyed
  7. Number of tabs in the tab list, 4, is conveyed

Record Results

Navigate backwards to a tab list in reading mode

After 'Shift+Tab'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role 'tab list' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name of the tab list, 'Danish Composers', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role of the selected item, 'tab', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name of the focused tab, 'Peter Lange-Müller', is conveyed(required: mark output)
State of the focused tab, 'selected', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Position of the focused tab, 4, is conveyed(required: mark output)
Number of tabs in the tab list, 4, is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'Up Arrow'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role 'tab list' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name of the tab list, 'Danish Composers', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role of the selected item, 'tab', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name of the focused tab, 'Peter Lange-Müller', is conveyed(required: mark output)
State of the focused tab, 'selected', is conveyed(required: mark output)
Position of the focused tab, 4, is conveyed(required: mark output)
Number of tabs in the tab list, 4, is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors