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From: Tomlins Diane
Date: Oct 11, 2018 10:22AM


Our developers want to use this date picker -- http://jqueryui.com/datepicker/ - it has some accessibility issues, but I found Deque's article on helping to fix that.

One of the things I question is navigating the calendar - in order to move within the calendar, you have to hold down the Ctrl (or Command) + arrow key.
Is this an accepted or typical way for kb or sr users to navigate a date picker like this? The full list of kb interactions is here - http://api.jqueryui.com/datepicker/.

Not helpful if we have to include a list of commands for using the thing.

Thanks!

Diane R Tomlins
HCA IT&S | UXCOE
Accessibility SME