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Voice Over reference page

http://www.apple.com/voiceover/info/guide/_1131.html

Windows Narrator reference page

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hear-text-read-aloud-narrator#1TC=windows-8

Known Bugs:

    Windows: you need to click and give focus to a new control before anything reads
    Windows: when you click away from a stage and come then click back on the tile, the focus is not re-read

Control Test Focus Actions Notes
Button HelloButton read text

Mac:VO+S

Win:CL+S

Note: only the first button in the example has a action listener printing to the console
CheckBox HelloSimpleCheckBox Mac & Win7: status (checked, unchecked, mixed) + name + check box   Note: Win7 not working
ComboBox HelloComboBox

Mac: pop up button

Windows: "Combo Box with" X "items editable text Prompting you here" 

   
Hyperlink HelloHyperlink      
Label HelloLabel

Mac Reads: text

Win7:

  Note: Win 7 Doesn't read
ListView HelloSimpleListView

Mac Reads: table no selection;

Mac & Win: "JavaFX item" X

 

Note: Win7 rarely reads back

Win7 and Mac10.9 do not read first item 0.

Pagination HelloPagination

Win 7 Reads: tab number + "tab"

Mac Reads: "1 selected radio button 1 of 10"

  Note: win7 off by one.
PasswordField HelloTextField

Win7: text + "text"

"SecureText" for password box.

Mac: Text Blank

If you type text leave and comeback with tab: text + "text" + "selected text"

Also reads: "secure text" for secure text field.

 

   
ProgressBar HelloProgressBar Mac: ProgressType or Percent + "progress indicator"   Note: Windows (7) not working.
ProgressIndicator HelloProgressIndicator Same as progress bar    
RadioButton HelloRadioButton

Win7 reads: text + "radio button" + selected?

Mac reads: Same as Windows

   
ScrollBar HelloScrollBar      
ScrollPane HelloScrollPane      
Slider HelloSlider

Mac: reads 0%

Win: reads 0%

Increment: arrow right, must read new value

Decrement: arrow left, must read new value 

 
TableView HelloSimpleTableView

Mac: reads first column for selected row: Item 0 Column 1 Row 1

Win:

Arrow up and down: reads newly selected row

Mac:

Describe item VO+F3: reads selected cell, cell location, column header

Cell traverse: VO + Left/Right arrow:  reads selected cell, cell location, column header

Read header: VO + C (read the column header, either name or email) 

Win:

 
TabPane HelloTabPane

Mac: name + "Selected Radio button"

Win7: name + "tab"

   
TextArea HelloTextArea

Mac reads "text" + text

Win7 reads: text only

   
TitlePane HelloTitledPane

Win7:

 

   
TitlePane HelloAccordion

Win7 reads:  name + "Pane" + contents

Mac: N/A

  Note Win7: Most (All?) actions do not trigger narrator.
ToggleButton HelloToggleButton

Mac Reads: Same as CheckBox

Win7: Reads Contents

Toggle: Space Bar Note: Actions do not seem to work on Win7
ToolBar HelloToolBar

 Win7 Reads: "Toolbar with" X "Buttons" + "Button" X "selected"

Mac Reads: "button 1"

  Note: mac behaves oddly, not reading that there is toolbar, just contents.
Tooltip HelloTooltip      
TreeView HelloSimpleTreeView

Win7 Whole Control Reads: nothing

on focused node: name + expanded + "with" numChildren + "children"

Mac: Whole Control Reads: table

on focused root: root

on focused leaf: name + expanded + number of items + level

 

   

 

 

 

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