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From: Mohith BP
Date: Feb 19, 2018 10:19PM

Hi All,

In the custom calendar component the following 2 issues are noted.
Please suggest are there any fixes:
1. When page up / page down and alt + page up / alt + page down is
pressed, JAWS reads entire dialog from the beginning before reading
the focused date. This issue is not noted with NVDA and Firefox, JAWS
and Firefox, JAWS 18 and IE 11. This issue is noted only in IE 11 with
JAWS 16.
2. When moved to next month or next year, JAWS reads all the dates of
the previous month / year in IE 11. When reading with the forms mode
off. This issue again not noted with Firefox and NVDA.

1. The calendar has role application for the div.
2. There are custom buttons for Previous year, previous month, next
month and next year with appropriate aria roles and keyboard access.
3. The table for dates is a custom CSS table (with div and span) has
appropriate aria grid structure.
4. All the dates are <a anchor tags with href.
5. Except currently selected date, all the anchor tags have tabindex minus 1.


Thanks & Regards,
Mohith B. P.