WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: does datepicker have to be accessible

for

From: adam solomon
Date: Feb 8, 2011 6:21AM

In many cases accessibility guidelines provide for alternative content for
disabled users. Why would this not classify as one of those instances, as
the loss here is a small amount of convenience of picking the date, and, in
fact, for a screen reader user it is probably easier typing the date rather
than navigating through a datepicker.

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Accessibility India <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> sorry for the blank message.. my typo..
> Yes the date picker also should be accessible. We should not provide
> the users of different abilities in a separate way of interacting with
> the web content. Make the calender icon as a key board focusable
> event. on clicking the calender icon the user should be focus to the
> layer where the calender opens.
> Pic the date and by entering on the date the input field should be
> updated and the focus should come back to the calender icon by closing
> the calander.
> Clear instruction should be given to enter the date in correct format
> in the input field manually.
> Thankyou
> Rakesh
>
> On 2/8/11, adam solomon < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> > Scenario: a textbox meant to have a date written in it. A button next to
> it
> > (calendar icon) which opens the datepicker to choose a date. One can
> enter a
> > date manually into the textbox, as well. Does the datepicker need to be
> > accessible, or is it enough that the user can manually enter a date into
> it
> > without making use of the datepicker? How should the format of the date
> to
> > be entered be communicated to a screen reader user in an unobtrusive
> manner?
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > --
> > adam solomon
> > linkedin <http://il.linkedin.com/pub/adam-solomon/24/449/a4>;
> > blogix <http://adam.blogix.co.il/>;
> >