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From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: May 14, 2014 5:30PM

Greetings, WebAIM:

I'm opening another round of discussion about accessible date
pickers. For the history of our last time around on this topic, see
this thread:



Thread: Accessible jQuery UI DatePicker

http://webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread?thread=6156

[And let me add a round of resounding applause to WebAIM for making
the archives easy to search and read!]

My questions, after reviewing this thread, are:

1. Does anyone know if the jQuery date picker has been rewritten, as
promised last September?

and

2. Anybody have a date picker that they'd like to show off?

My client is a big fan of Bootstrap, but the one they chose isn't
keyboard accessible. I tried to check PayPal's Bootstrap plugin, but
I didn't see a mention of a date picker pattern. If anyone knows that
I missed it there, please correct me.

I'm honestly inclined to go with the idea of providing multiple ways
of input, including an edit box that illustrates correct date entry.

Thanks.
Best,
Jennifer