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From: Paul J. Adam
Date: Jul 21, 2013 1:09PM

It looks like their depart and arrive date inputs are not labelled. They also require a DD/MM/YYYY input format. It appears you can manually type a date if in the correct format but the calendar date picker is not accessible with the keyboard or a screen reader.

This is a date picker that I recommend for accessibility, one of the few accessible date pickers I've found. If anyone else knows of a good date picker please let us know.

Date picker - Web Experience Toolkit (WET)
http://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew/demos/datepicker/datepicker-eng.html

Thanks!

Paul J. Adam
Accessibility Evangelist
www.deque.com

On Jul 21, 2013, at 2:07 AM, Tania < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hello web aim experts,
>
> The blind community in my country is having serious online access from a
> home-grown airline website.Developers in my country are NOT trained in
> building for accessibility and there are no blind developers locally to
> provide advice so I hope you can help.
>
> Can you please recommend accessible J Query apps for choosing flight
> destinations and accessible calendar to choose dates for flight tickets
> for this website:
>
> www.airasia.com/asia
>
> Our blind community had met with the airline staff a number of times to
> show them the accessibility problems screen reader users faced and they
> did make adjustments but the most serious problems for online flight
> bookings still remain. Now, the web staff at the airline are ignoring
> request for more meetings with us. I suspect the local developers have
> reached the limits of their capabilities. I do hope the accessibility
> experts here can provide some tips on how to make the website more
> accessible so we can provide some useful info to those who are working
> on the site.
>
> This is a low cost airline, making it a more affordable choice for the
> blind here.
>
> Thank you
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tania
>
> > >