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From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: Jan 13, 2018 4:52PM

Hello:


Before I answer your question, let me say that I like this notion of
having prisoners help assess websites for accessibility. I prefer assess
to "audit;" it's less scary, despite how much the current legal climate
in the U.S. feels like "auditing" is the thing to be doing.


At any rate, to assess, these days, it's essential that folks know
Javascript, ARIA, and preferably, even some frameworks, so I hope you'll
be able to collaborate with some of the companies in the industry in
order to assure prisoners are getting the training they need, beyond CSS
and HTML. I can't imagine how you could have an online calendar made
from only CSS and HTML, unless it's a read-only calendar, rather than an
interactive one.


That's not to minimize the importance of CSS and HTML; it's only to say
that more and more, assessments require the need to assess web
application-like products, rather than what I think of as more static sites.


This topic of calendars has been discussed many times on the list, so
I'll provide some links to threads that have been within the last year
or so, below.


I hope this helps you, those with whom you work, and others in our
industry who may be willing to offer services to support both people
with disabilities and prisoners who are assisting us. This is one of the
best things I've seen in our industry in a long time; it's like
prisoners who help with braille transcription. Keep up the good work,
and I, for one, appreciate this approach -- a way to help prisoners gain
marketable skills, even beyond accessibility testing (which can be
rather a niche/limiting), while helping others.


Best,

Jennifer


A thread from February of 2017:

https://webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread?thready70


A thread from Oct. 2016:

https://webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread?threadw35


Although it may be cited in either or both of the threads, above, here's
a collection of date-pickers that may be helpful:

http://www.webaxe.org/accessible-date-pickers/


If folks have additions to Dennis's compilation, if you post in the
comments, I'm sure he'll consider them.


As far as I know, one of the best things to do is to refer to Bryan's
AccDC Style guide to understand what a calendar/date-picker must
contain. Start here:
https://github.com/accdc/tsg

And here's this last, from Bryan, as a bonus:
http://whatsock.com/tsg/Coding%20Arena/ARIA%20Date%20Pickers/ARIA%20Date%20Picker%20(with%20Disabled%20Date%20Ranges)/demo.htm

On 1/13/2018 1:28 PM, Peter Shikli wrote:
> We're familiar with general accessibility audit methodologies such as
> WCAG's <https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/NOTE-WCAG-EM-20140710/>, but I'm
> wondering if anyone has come across a methodology specific to auditing
> calendars, perhaps as a specialized variant or enhancement to one of
> the general methodologies?  Anything from a structured methodology,
> checklist, or even disorganized tips would be great to give our
> analysts.  I'm looking for something applicable to all calendar
> flavors from embedded commercial widgets to home-grown tables (with a
> dash of CSS).
>
> Cheers,
> Peter Shikli
> Access2online
> 503-570-6831 - <EMAIL REMOVED>
> www.access2online.com
> Prison inmates helping websites become accessible
> > > > ---
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