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From: Mike Barlow
Date: May 22, 2016 2:41PM

Bryan, nice looking Date Picker but one thing I would probably do would be
to add a couple of other keyboard shortcuts and enhancements:
Alt-Y - Puts you into a "Year" field where the year is displayed and allow
you to enter a specific year (for example if I have to "Alt-PageDown" from
2016 to 1950 that's a lot of keystrokes
Alt-M - Same for a "Month" field.

And is there any "standard" way (other than simply putting the instructions
on the page) to inform a user what the keyboard shortcuts are for a
particular custom widget like this?

*Mike Barlow*
Web Application Developer
Web Accessibility/Section 508 SME

Lancaster, Pa 17601
Office: 732.835-7557
Cell: 732.682.8226
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On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Bryan Garaventa <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Thanks, that does help.
>
> I see what you mean about the date format, though this is challenging
> because this is totally customizable in the setup, where a developer can
> literally do whatever they wish, such as "Saturday March 15, 2018",
> "2017-03-15", "03/15/2017", or anything else, and this can be tied to
> individual select elements for Month Day and Year, or to an edit field such
> as this. So writing an algorithm to predict anything a developer wants to
> do is impossible. That being said though, it is possible to manually set a
> date within the datepicker JavaScript object, so I can write instructions
> for doing this with a test page. Also putting a placeholder with the date
> string format would probably help, so I'll change this later this week.
>
> Regarding the keystrokes, it is true there are a lot, yet this difficulty
> will be the same for all date pickers out there. I'll look into adding a
> help icon that can be used to pop these open, which should help.
>
> I'll look into the other observations too, there is likely a way at
> present to control the datepicker from the edit field now, though I will
> need to build this from scratch. Even if I do this though, users still
> will not automatically know what all of the keystrokes are accept through
> trial and error, the same as all such datepickers out there.
>
> FYI, you can scan through the years by holding down Alt+PageUp or
> Alt+PageDown.
>
>
> Bryan Garaventa
> Accessibility Fellow
> SSB BART Group, Inc.
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> 415.624.2709 (o)
> www.SSBBartGroup.com
>
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