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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Jan 4, 2012 8:12AM

In case it's of interest.

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To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 7:11 AM


> Here you go, as promised. The WhatSock Day Planner is designed to be the
> simplest and most accessible free day planner service in the world.
> http://planner.whatsock.com/
> I've pasted the help info below, also available by clicking the "What
> now?" image link on the landing page.
>
> About
> WhatSock Day Planner is a free service for everyone to quickly and easily
> manage their time more effectively, in style, from any location in the
> world,
> using any PC or mobile device with a modern browser.
> All Day Planner entries are securely stored and associated with the
> account holder; WhatSock Day Planner is literally a personal day planner.
> Day planner
> entries can only be viewed and edited by the account holder.
> Instructions
> Activate the Login button to login using Facebook. After which, all day
> planner entries and Option settings will automatically be associated with
> your Facebook
> account.
> Your email address is used for authentication within the WhatSock
> database, and not for any other purpose.
> After logging in:
> . Click any date to view a planner entry.
> . Click Edit to add or change an entry.
> . Click Save, Clear, or Cancel to make it happen.
> Each date entry may be up to 1000 characters in length.
> Keyboard Support
> All features are accessible from the keyboard.
> Within the calendar dates:
> . Use the arrow keys to navigate by date.
> . Press PageUp or PageDown to navigate by month.
> . Press Return or Space to edit the selected date.
> . Press Escape to jump to the first page heading.
>
> When you click the Options button, and select a new background image for
> the planner, the setting is automatically saved for logged in users.
>
> You can type entries in any language and it will be stored in the database
> using that character set. Also, when entries are displayed in the planner
> window, all special characters are automatically converted to html
> entities so that they will be displayed correctly.
>
> It works on PCs, iOS devices, and on the Droid.
>
> Though this is designed for everyone, here are a few screen reader tips:
> Since ARIA is used heavily to ensure accessibility, the page is best
> viewed using JAWS12 or 13 with IE8 or 9, or using the latest versions of
> NVDA with Firefox.
> There is a known issue when using NVDA2011.3 with the Options menu, which
> has already been addressed in the bug entry at
> http://www.nvda-project.org/ticket/2025#comment:3
> Standard heading navigation works great.
> When a planner entry is displayed, you can jump to the Main landmark.
> If still within the calendar, where forms mode is enforced, press Escape
> to jump to the first heading on the page, or press tab twice to enter the
> planner window directly.
>
> Currently email notifications aren't supported, but I hope to add this in
> the future.
>
> Think of the service as a personal day planner you keep in your back
> pocket... If you lose your phone or whatever, you won't ever lose it.
>
> Enjoy,
> Bryan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bryan Garaventa" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 2:15 PM
> Subject: Re: Fw: Regarding an ARIA calendar picker control that supports
> automatic accessibility for SR and keyboard users
>
>
>> Excellent :) I understand what you mean, I wasn't sure which would be
>> best, since up implies an increase, yet in documents, up means previous.
>> I'm not sure what would be best in this case.
>>
>> I'm going to be releasing a free public service later this week, designed
>> to be the simplest and most accessible personal day planner application
>> in the world, which utilizes this widget, much enhanced however. I'll
>> pass it on if it is of interest.
>>
>> Happy New Year,
>> Bryan
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "lucia greco" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 12:13 PM
>> Subject: Re: Fw: Regarding an ARIA calendar picker control that supports
>> automatic accessibility for SR and keyboard users
>>
>>
>>> once again nice job.
>>> i just took a look at this and liked it a lot. i used page up and page
>>> down to move by month and found that worked nicely. however i found it
>>> a little non intoative. going up to move forword was opaset to what i
>>> expected.
>>>
>>> On 12/15/11, Bryan Garaventa < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>>> In case it's of interest.
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I started working on this one mainly to see if I could get the ARIA
>>>> grid
>>>> type roles working using a practical implementation, such as a calendar
>>>> picker control that supports full accessibility. Unfortunately though,
>>>> it
>>>> appears that role=grid and all associated roles have no impact on
>>>> tabular
>>>> navigation structures. So I switched to plan B and used role=dialog,
>>>> role=button, role=link, aria-selected, aria-label, and tabindex to do
>>>> it
>>>> anyway.
>>>>
>>>> This is what it does, in the standard fashion of calendar pickers, you
>>>> just
>>>> click the Calendar link to open the Calendar picker control.
>>>> Then you can use the arrow keys to navigate each cell of the grid in
>>>> tabular
>>>> fashion using the structure of the underlying table.
>>>> Press Home or End to jump to the beginning or end of a row,
>>>> or PageDown or PageUp to jump to the next calendar month.
>>>> The buttons for moving forward and backward can also be accessed using
>>>> ShiftTab, since focus is automatically set on the current day of the
>>>> month
>>>> by default.
>>>> Press enter on a date to make a selection, or press Escape or Tab to
>>>> cancel
>>>> and close the calendar.
>>>> You can also just click on a date to select it. (Boring and very
>>>> sad...)
>>>>
>>>> If you'd like to give it a spin, the demo is at
>>>> http://whatsock.com/modules/aria_calendar_module/demo.htm
>>>>
>>>> This functionality works best with JAWS12/13 with IE8/9 and FF, and
>>>> NVDA
>>>> with FF.
>>>>
>>>> Best wishes,
>>>> Bryan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/bgaraventa
>>>>
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