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From: Aaron Cannon
Date: Mar 19, 2008 8:20PM

When I clicked the button to cause the calendar to appear, it wasn't apparent that anything happened. I had to scroll down to find it. Also, the dates did not appear to be either links or clickable, at least Jaws didn't say they were.

We actually worked on a date picker here, using JQuery. We were facing a lot of the same issues. We found that if we caused the button to load the same page but directed to an anchor tag that was right above the calendar, it helped Jaws to focus where it needed to be. Also, we made the dates links, and used CSS to hide the fact. Don't know if any of that is possible in this situation, but just thought I'd share what worked for us.

Aaron


>>> "Jon Gibbins (dotjay)" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > 3/19/2008 7:45 PM >>>

Aaron Cannon wrote:
> Bad link.
>
> Aaron

The link requires the 'x' at the end, but try this:
http://tinyurl.com/yo4evv

FWIW, the calendar doesn't look particularly harmful. Keyboard
navigation through the form appears to work okay. It may just be a
little confusing to screen reader users who try the calendar button but
can't do anything with it.

Also, an aside, there doesn't appear to be anything at all Ajaxy about
the calendar. It's just JavaScript effects?

J


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