Testing task: Navigate backwards to a spin button

Describe how VoiceOver for macOS behaves when performing task "With focus on the 'Navigate backwards from here' link, navigate to the 'Year' spin button."

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 the date picker to March 19, 2021, hides the previous/next arrow buttons and sets focus on a link after the 'Year' spin button.
  3. Toggle Quick Nav OFF by pressing the Left Arrow and Right Arrow keys at the same time.
  4. With focus on the 'Navigate backwards from here' link, navigate to the 'Year' spin button.
  5. Using the following commands, With focus on the 'Navigate backwards from here' link, navigate to the 'Year' spin button.
    • Ctrl+Option+Left
    • Shift+Tab

Success Criteria

To pass this test, VoiceOver for macOS needs to meet all the following assertions when each specified command is executed:

  1. Role 'group' is conveyed
  2. Name of the group is conveyed as: 'Choose a Date current value is Friday, March nineteenth, 2021'
  3. Role 'spin button' is conveyed
  4. Name 'Year' is conveyed
  5. Value '2021' is conveyed

Record Results

Navigate backwards to a spin button

After 'Ctrl+Option+Left'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role 'group' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name of the group is conveyed as: 'Choose a Date current value is Friday, March nineteenth, 2021'(required: mark output)
Role 'spin button' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'Year' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Value '2021' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'Shift+Tab'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role 'group' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name of the group is conveyed as: 'Choose a Date current value is Friday, March nineteenth, 2021'(required: mark output)
Role 'spin button' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name 'Year' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Value '2021' is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors