Testing task: Read unchecked menu item checkbox in reading mode

With JAWS in reading mode, describe how JAWS behaves when performing task " Read the 'Italic' menu item checkbox"

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 a link just before the menubar.
  3. Tab to 'Text Formatting' menubar.
  4. Navigate to 'Style/Color' menu item with right arrow.
  5. Open 'Style/Color' menu with down arrow.
  6. Navigate to 'Italic' menu item checkbox with down arrow.
  7. Activate the screen reader reading cursor.
  8. Read the 'Italic' menu item checkbox
  9. Using the following commands, Read the 'Italic' menu item checkbox
    • Insert+Tab
    • Insert+Up

Success Criteria

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

  1. The name 'Italic' is conveyed
  2. The role 'menu item checkbox' is conveyed
  3. The unchecked state is conveyed
  4. The position of the item and number of items in the 'Font Style ' group are conveyed
  5. The name and role of the 'Font Style' group are conveyed

Record Results

Read unchecked menu item checkbox in reading mode

After 'Insert+Tab'

Which statements are true about the response to Insert+Tab?
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors

After 'Insert+Up'

Which statements are true about the response to Insert+Up?
Were there additional undesirable behaviors?(required)
Undesirable behaviors