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From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: Wed, May 14 2014 5:30PM
Subject: accessible date pickers revisited
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Greetings, WebAIM:

I'm opening another round of discussion about accessible date
pickers. For the history of our last time around on this topic, see
this thread:



Thread: Accessible jQuery UI DatePicker

http://webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread?thread=6156

[And let me add a round of resounding applause to WebAIM for making
the archives easy to search and read!]

My questions, after reviewing this thread, are:

1. Does anyone know if the jQuery date picker has been rewritten, as
promised last September?

and

2. Anybody have a date picker that they'd like to show off?

My client is a big fan of Bootstrap, but the one they chose isn't
keyboard accessible. I tried to check PayPal's Bootstrap plugin, but
I didn't see a mention of a date picker pattern. If anyone knows that
I missed it there, please correct me.

I'm honestly inclined to go with the idea of providing multiple ways
of input, including an edit box that illustrates correct date entry.

Thanks.
Best,
Jennifer

From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: Thu, May 15 2014 11:00AM
Subject: Re: accessible date pickers revisited
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Greetings, WebAIM:

To continue this discussion (with myself, at least at the moment) and
to capture a bit of my research...

I took a look at the date picker in the recently released Assets Framework:

http://assets.cms.gov/resources/framework/2.0/Pages/datepicker.html

And it looks pretty good to me, from a screen reader user perspective.

Apparently, it's based on this jQuery plugin:
http://freqdec.github.io/datePicker/
[where there has been some attention to accessibility -- hurray!]


For the record, in case others use the WebAIM archives as often as I
do, below my name are a few more examples that I've checked. Some of
them were discussed in the previous thread on this topic.

Part of why I like the Assets Framework option is that it does offer
the date entry option, along with a calendar.
At least with JFW 15, however, I'd prefer to see the "expected date
format" in the edit box label, rather than below; however, this may
just be to show it as an example.

Best,
Jennifer


http://toddliebsch.com/public/calendar/caltest.htm

http://www.oaa-accessibility.org/examplep/datepicker1/


http://www.deque.com/blog/accessible-jquery-ui-datepicker/
[this is the blog post that I sent to WebAIM last September -- the
item that started the original thread.]

<http://whatsock.com/tsg/>;http://whatsock.com/tsg/
[See the example under ARIA Date Pickers, but probably a bit too
complex for my needs.]

From: Scott González
Date: Thu, May 15 2014 11:11AM
Subject: Re: accessible date pickers revisited
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On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Jennifer Sutton < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >wrote:

> 1. Does anyone know if the jQuery date picker has been rewritten, as
> promised last September?
>

It's in progress. You can track the updates in
https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/tree/datepicker. However, it's planned
for jQuery UI 1.13.0 and we're just about to release 1.11.0. We're working
on our globalization solution <https://github.com/jquery/globalize>, which
is a dependency for the datepicker rewrite.

From: Don Mauck
Date: Thu, May 15 2014 11:12AM
Subject: Re: accessible date pickers revisited
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Jennifer --
Thanks for this, good stuff.