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From: Chris Heilmann
Date: Oct 11, 2004 10:13AM


> On a technical note, the levels of interactivity that DHTML brought us is
> anathema to accessibility. For example my understanding is that
> date-pickers
> are a no-no for accessibility, so we have to take a step backward in
> useability, since they might confuse some users.

Badly implemented date pickers, yes. However you _can_ develop a date
picker that only gets applied when and if DHTML is possible. I explained
the ideas how to do that in my self-training course for unobtrusive
Javascript[1]. You do not need to cut down on usability enhancements, as
long as you check if they can be used and, in some cases, you allow the
user to enable or disable them.

[1] http://www.onlinetools.org/articles/unobtrusivejavascript/chapter3.html

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Chris Heilmann
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