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Re: does datepicker have to be accessible

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Feb 8, 2011 8:00AM

Birkir,
This is an interesting problem - JAWS does allow you to configure the reading for repeated letters, but this makes reading tedious in other ways (e.g. when someone puts a line of periods or dashes as part of their email sig). The default setting also means that if my phone number is 123-456-0000 that you won't hear it correctly, won't it?

I wonder whether screen reader vendors have considered parsing the text and analyzing whether there is a phone number or a common date identifier. They should - I doubt that many people will stop using mm/dd/yyyy since it is short, and also avoids confusion for people who might enter the date as dd/mm/yyyy....

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems

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