[NFBCS] Accessible Date and Time Pickers

[Timothy Breitenfeldt]

I also like the list box option, although the thing that bothers me is
data validation. If you select February in the listbox then only 28
days should populate in the days list, well what about leap years? The
logic for building a accurate control using just list boxes is going
to get pretty complicated. perhaps it is worth building a library for
at one point because it is the easiest to use, but I don't have the
time to do that now.

Timothy Breitenfeldt

On 2/28/20, Kevin via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 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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