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Re: Accessible Datepicker & NVDA Support

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: May 19, 2016 10:15AM

> (Not sure why they exist). Just type MM/DD/YYY in the label.

Date pickers are sometimes necessary because they can indicate dates that are unavailable/available/holiday and they provide additional information in tabular form such as the week a date falls on or for example whether a date is the first, two, third, etc. Thursday in the month.

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-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Brandon Keith Biggs
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 12:11 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Accessible Datepicker & NVDA Support

Hello,
NVDA users would be crazy if they used a date picker! (Not sure why they exist). Just type MM/DD/YYY in the label. But that date picker is fine on my end (although I would never use it because I have to go through every day in every year!) Thanks,


Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>;

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 6:52 AM, Nisar A < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hello experts,
>
> I built up a datepicker using bits and pieces from other datepickers.
> Is there a way I can verify if that datepicker is compliant with
> USDOT-508 / meets the WCAG 2.1.1 guidelines?
>
> Here is the working example for reference:
> https://jsfiddle.net/j49gz3g3/4/
>
> Some people in the testing team say that it is not compliant since
> NVDA screen reader reads out the date along with the column/row
> number. They claim it should read only the date and not extra information.
>
> Is that true?
>
> Thanks,
> Nisar
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