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Re: Acessibility of a date picker?

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: May 26, 2016 7:55AM

> The table with role="grid" has aria-readonly="true" which is probably what is preventing screen readers from going into forms mode.

One additional thing many accessible date pickers use is the role of application to force Windows screen readers into forms mode. Generally we don't recommend this type of behavior but in some cases it may be needed. From my experience NVDA and Firefox seem to go into forms/focus mode when you focus a grid but as Birkir mentions with JAWS and Firefox JAWS will not go into forms mode when aria-readonly is set to true. If it is not set to true then JAWS will go into forms mode on a grid. So there would appear to be differences between ATs and perhaps browsers as well -- so that may be why in the past people resorted to wrapping the grid with role of application.

Jonathan

Jonathan Avila
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