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Re: does datepicker have to be accessible

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From: Accessibility India
Date: Feb 8, 2011 6:30AM

On 2/8/11, adam solomon < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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.
Yes Adam, Accessibility guidelines may use alternate methods in some
instances mostly where the content may not be accessible in the
straight way. When we can make any technology accessible there is no
point in denying to make it accessible.
Yes me as a screen reader user I do agree that input the text is
simple but picking date from date picker is not complex if we are able
to make it accessible.


> 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/>;
>> >