[NFBCS] Accessible Date and Time Pickers

[Kevin]

How about a textbox for the hour, another textbox for the minute, and a 
combobox with A M or P M?


On 2/28/2020 1:04 PM, Timothy Breitenfeldt via NFBCS wrote:
> Hi, I am working on a project that needs a form element for capturing
> departure and arival dates and times. Does anyone have any suggestions
> for good methodologies for choosing dates and times?
>
> I am using react JS for my javascript library.
> There are a tun of date picker components out there, but personally I
> hate most of them even those who say that there component is
> accessible. I personally find entering a date manually in a textbox
> far easier as a screenreader user than navigating some new UI and
> spending far longer than I should trying to choose my date.
> I know that I have seen a couple times where the date is split up into
> three textboxes and you have to enter month in one, day into another,
> and year into the last. This is generally pretty accessible in my
> opinion and easier to deal with programmatically. I was trying to find
> an already prepared js library for this, but I just couldn't put my
> hands on one.
>
> What about time though? I am not sure that I have seen texboxes for
> entering time, that seems strange, but not really any worse than
> entering a date manually. Perhaps listboxes?
>
> What is people's prefered way of inserting dates as screenreader
> users, and if you have any suggestions for resources on where to find
> existing libraries that would be very appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Timothy Breitenfeldt
>

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