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Re: Datepicker questions - are they useful?

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Nov 2, 2015 9:28AM

A date picker is very useful, especially when it's important to know the day of the week or month involved, or when planning months or years in the future. This is especially the case with travel sites.

There is another implementation you are welcome to test at
http://whatsock.com/tsg/Coding%20Arena/ARIA%20Date%20Pickers/ARIA%20Date%20Picker%20(Basic)/demo.htm
Which supports disabled date ranges, comment notation, date format changing, localization support within any language, calendar changing for European calendar layout differences, full control over styling across various devices, and so on.

The module works as powered by jQuery within the archive at
https://github.com/accdc/tsg

Or powered by Dojo at
https://github.com/accdc/tsg-dojo

Or powered by MooTools at
https://github.com/accdc/tsg-mootools

Sincerely,
Bryan Garaventa




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Subject: [WebAIM] Datepicker questions - are they useful?

Hello,

I have a question about datepickers for the group.

We are looking to create a recommended pattern for a style guide. This style guide will influence desktop, responsive and mobile native applications.

Generally we know we want

<label ...>
<format instructions>
<input text box>
<date picker validation>

We obviously will also have to keep error handling in mind. My questions to everyone are:
- do screen reader users enjoy accessible datepickers or do they prefer a text box?
- do keyboard only or zoomtext users enjoy accessible datepickers or do they prefer a text box?
- same question for dragon users

- also for responsive and mobile web, do people like the input typeÚte with mobile assistive technologies like VoiceOver and talkback? Switch control? Or is the textbox preferred?

- is a sequence of drop downs better?

Lately I've been trying to find a one size fits all option and I really haven't found one. It begs the question, what is the most fluid way for people to use a date picker. What is the user impact? Are calendar date pickers helpful or do they make a simple process more difficult?

Thank you,

Beth


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