Testing task: Navigate from an expanded disclosure button to the current page link in interaction mode

With JAWS in interaction mode, describe how JAWS behaves when performing task "With focus on the first disclosure button in the navigation region, move into the button's associated list of links."

Test instructions

  1. Restore default settings for JAWS. 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 the first disclosure button, sets its state to expanded, and marks the first link in the associated dropdown as being the current page.
  3. Verify the PC Cursor is active by pressing Alt+Delete. If it is not, turn off the Virtual Cursor by pressing Insert+Z.
  4. With focus on the first disclosure button in the navigation region, move into the button's associated list of links.
  5. Using the following commands, With focus on the first disclosure button in the navigation region, move into the button's associated list of links.
    • Tab
    • Down Arrow

Success Criteria

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

  1. Role of the dropdown ('list') is conveyed
  2. Number of items in the dropdown (4) is conveyed
  3. Role of the first item in the dropdown ('link') is conveyed
  4. Name of the first item in the dropdown ('Overview') is conveyed
  5. State of the first item in the dropdown (as the current page) is conveyed

Record Results

Navigate from an expanded disclosure button to the current page link in interaction mode

After 'Tab'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role of the dropdown ('list') is conveyed(required: mark output)
Number of items in the dropdown (4) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role of the first item in the dropdown ('link') is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name of the first item in the dropdown ('Overview') is conveyed(required: mark output)
State of the first item in the dropdown (as the current page) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors





After 'Down Arrow'

AssertionSuccess caseFailure cases
Role of the dropdown ('list') is conveyed(required: mark output)
Number of items in the dropdown (4) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Role of the first item in the dropdown ('link') is conveyed(required: mark output)
Name of the first item in the dropdown ('Overview') is conveyed(required: mark output)
State of the first item in the dropdown (as the current page) is conveyed(required: mark output)
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors