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The table of contents in the app presents the content hierarchy (nav-005)

Below are all the published results for the test nav-005, which appears in Basic Functionality (2.0.0).

This test currently has a 75.44% pass rate.

Reading system testing results
Testing Environment The table of contents in the app presents the content hierarchy ( nav-005) Notes
Atypon NVDA Chrome Windows PASS The subheadings are in a list, so when keyboard focus lands on them, they are announced as separate list items, allowing users to identify both the headings and subheadings.
Azardi NVDA Windows PASS
BoinIT Viewer [Korean] NVDA Chrome Windows PASS - The table of contents is displayed hierarchically. - Access the table of contents with keyboard shortcuts - Location voice guidance for movement in the table of contents when using the sense reader. - CTRL+ALT+T Open Table of Contents - ALT + arrow keys to move within the table of contents
BoinIT Viewer [Korean] Sens Reader Chrome Windows PASS - The table of contents is displayed hierarchically. - Access the table of contents with keyboard shortcuts - Location voice guidance for movement in the table of contents when using the sense reader. - CTRL+ALT+T Open Table of Contents - ALT + arrow keys to move within the table of contents
BoinIT Viewer [Korean] Chrome Windows PASS - The table of contents is displayed hierarchically. - Access the table of contents with keyboard shortcuts - Location voice guidance for movement in the table of contents when using the sense reader. - CTRL+ALT+T Open Table of Contents - ALT + arrow keys to move within the table of contents
Books macOS PASS The table of contents can be reached from an icon on the tool bar, with the keyboard shortcut "command T", or in the View menu. The hierarchy is represented correctly. Sub-levels are shown indented and with a grey background.
Books Voiceover iOS PASS In the TOC Voiceover announces "Indentation level" as 0 or 1 to indicate the hierarchy of the sections. It will be better when Voiceover will not say indentation level but only heading level.
Bookshare Reader NVDA Chrome Windows PASS The table of contents is presented through headings and is easy to navigate.
Bookshare Reader NVDA Edge Windows PASS
Bookshelf Voiceover iOS FAIL The chapters in the TOC have a expand/collapse button to show sub-sections. However, while reading TOC entries Voiceover does not indicate if it is a chapter or sub-section
Bookshelf Voiceover Safari macOS PASS The TOC is structured correctly and displays sub-chapter sections.
Bookshelf NVDA Chrome Windows PASS
Bookshelf JAWS 2020 Chrome Windows PASS
Bookshelf JAWS 2020 Firefox 62+ Windows PASS
Bookshelf TalkBack Android PASS
Bookshelf NVDA Chrome Windows PASS The highest level is represented as a button. By default it is expanded. You can click on it and it collapses. This gives you at least one level of hierarchy.
Bookworm NVDA Windows PASS bookshelf screen is accessible. It opens as a separate window.The TOC is presented as a easy to use tree view
Clusive NVDA Windows PASS The table of contents is presented and chapters with sub-headings can be expanded and collapsed.
Colibrio Reader TalkBack Android PASS The TOC entries are announced together with location in the hierarchy.
Colibrio Reader TalkBack Android PASS Talkback correctly announces 'level 1' or level 2' while reading TOC. The section being read is shown as selected. This is useful. However, the colour contrast in this selected section is not good.
Colibrio Reader NVDA Chrome Windows PASS Alt + C takes you to the table of contents at the location you are at in the book, which is very nice. The TOC has a tree view that can be expanded and collapsed.
Digital Editions Voiceover iOS 12 FAIL The hierarchy cannot be determined with Voiceover
Digital Editions TalkBack Android 9 FAIL No Talkback support
Digital Editions JAWS 18 Windows FAIL The book reading view cannot be accessed reliably, the application mostly stops responding.
EBSCO Reader NVDA Chrome Windows PASS The Table of Contents is navigable, though it can feel dense when moving through it with a screen reader.
EBSCO Reader Jaws Chrome Windows PASS The main headings in the TOC can be expanded/collapsed to reveal/hide sub-sections.
EBSCO Reader NVDA Edge Windows PASS Yes, the table of contents is navigable, but it feels dense traveling through it. Each chapter has three buttons to pass by, and if your content has many chapters it would feel like a trek.
EasyReader Windows PASS While the levels are uneven in the TOC, users can still get an idea about the sections and subsections. However, improvement is needed.
EasyReader Voiceover iOS PASS Levels are explicitly shown for each item in TOC.
EasyReader Jaws Windows 11 PASS The TOC presented as a tree-view is accessible. Previous app versions were not displaying the correct order of headings, this issue seems to be resolved.
EasyReader TalkBack Android FAIL Visually the hierarchy is shown but it is not detected by Talkback.
Kindle TalkBack Android FAIL Visually, subheadings are indented slightly from the heading text, helping users distinguish between them. However, screen readers cannot detect this difference.
Kindle Voiceover iOS FAIL Visually, subheadings are indented slightly from the heading text, helping users distinguish between them. However, screen readers cannot detect this difference.
Kindle NVDA Windows FAIL Visually, subheadings are indented slightly from the heading text, helping users distinguish between them. However, screen readers cannot detect this difference.
Kobo Jaws Chrome Windows PASS The TOC is presented as a list. Sections that have sub-sections have a list below them. It is not possible to expand or collapse sections.
Kobo Voiceover iOS FAIL Voiceover does not report the hierarchy although it is evident visually.
Kobo TalkBack Android FAIL Talkback does not report the hierarchy although it is evident visually.
Kurzweil 3000 macOS FAIL Only level 1 items in the TOC are presented in the drop down list at the top list of the reading window.
Lithium: EPUB Reader 0.24.5.1 TalkBack Android PASS There are dropdowns for sections, and upon clicking one, the subsections appear.
Play Books Voiceover iOS FAIL The TOC hierarchy is not reported by Voiceover. All the sections and sub-sections are read similarly.
Play Books TalkBack Android PASS The app provides controls to expand and collapse the chapters in the TOC. The Talkback users can get some information about the hierarchy from this.
RedShelf NVDA Chrome Windows PASS
RedShelf Jaws Chrome Windows PASS
RedShelf TalkBack Android PASS
Simply Reading TalkBack Android PASS The app numbers all the TOC entries like 1, 1.1 and so on. With the numbering the hierarchy is perceivable to Talkback.
Speech Central AI Voice Reader 13.6.0 TalkBack Android FAIL The book is divided into chapters, and headings are displayed as titles. However, the user can only see the title of the chapter they are currently in, which needs to be improve.
Texthelp ePub Reader Edge Windows FAIL Only some of the title's table of contents is displayed in the reading system.
Thorium 3 Jaws Windows PASS
Thorium 3 Voiceover macOS PASS
Thorium Reader 2 Voiceover macOS PASS
Thorium Reader 2 Jaws Windows PASS There is a navigation area and one of the items is table of contents. Pressing enter expands this and the TOC is presented with headings and sub-headings. It is very easy to navigate.
Thorium Reader 2 [Spanish] NVDA Windows PASS Para mostrar la tabla de contenido, pulsar control+shift+n. Así el cursor se situará en la sección actual, la cual se resaltará mediante tres asteriscos entre paréntesis (***).
Thorium Reader 3 NVDA Windows PASS The TOC items are arranged as headings with different levels.
Thorium Reader 3 Jaws Chrome Windows PASS works as expected.
Thorium Reader 3 [Spanish] NVDA Windows PASS Para abrir la tabla de contenido, pulsar control+shift+n. La estructura de la obra se representa mediante encabezados y listas de distintos niveles, y la posición actual se resalta mediante (***).
Vanilla Reader NVDA Chrome Windows PASS The TOC is presented as a expandable and collapsable tree view. It works with the keyboard and screen reader. Press Alt + C to open TOC, use up/down to navigate the list and right/left arrows to expand/collapse main sections that have sub-sections.
Voice Dream Reader Voiceover iOS PASS The Voiceover reports the hierarchy of the items in the TOC by announcing its "heading level". The sub-sections are wrongly announced as level 3 instead of level 2.