[NFBCS] Accessible Date and Time Pickers

[Brian Buhrow]

	hello.  I suggest a good old fashioned html select list. One list for
the hour, another for the minutes and a third for the AM/PM choice.  That
way, you don't need to validate the input from the user when you read the
data.  Those are readily accessible and work well with most screen readers
I've used.
-thanks
-Brian

On Feb 28,  2:47pm, Kevin via NFBCS wrote:
} Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Accessible Date and Time Pickers
} 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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