Preferred way of performing action on view before reading?

In Satellite, we have a page with multiple tabs. One of the tabs has two checkboxes and their state determines content of table below. Checkboxes state is reset when you switch out of the tab.

In our automation, page is modelled as view and each tab is nested view.

What is preferred way of reading the page content, with setting said checkboxes at the same time?

read() methods don't take any arguments, so I can't pass in the value that would force the action before reading. I can read selected tabs, call page.tab.widget.update() and read page.tab again while it's active, but it feels like leaking framework details into test code. Then there is this solution, which I find awkward.

Start by reading the read() methods and the nested-view behavior described in the issue, then compare the linked contenthost.py solution. The issue does not name an implementation file or test; done would require an agreed API for setting checkbox state before reading without exposing framework details in test code.