[NFBCS] Accessible Date and Time Pickers

[Timothy Breitenfeldt]

That does, thank you. I suppose I was overthinking what that logic
would look like, but put like that, it makes sense. I am actually
using react with rest API microservice architecture, so I would have
to do something like this on the front I think.

Thanks,

Timothy Breitenfeldt

On 3/1/20, Brian Buhrow <buhrow at nfbcal.org> wrote:
> 	Hello.  The logic for building list boxes based on the month and day
> of the year isn't that complicated.  You can do it with a couple of
> javascript functions, or you could just put up the month, day and year
> list boxes and then validate the data when the user submits it in the CGI
> program itself.  Again, that validation is not terribly complicated.  If
> the month is April, June, September or November,  (4, 6 9 or 11), then the
> day count for the month is 30.  Otherwise it's 31.  Then, once you've
> checked that, you check to see if the current month is February (2).  In
> that case, if the current year is divisible by 4 or 1000, then the day
> count is 29.  Otherwise it's 28.
> Just a few lines of perl, php, or javascript will do all these checks for
> you.  Javascript lets you do it in the browser, but you could just as
> easily do it on the back end and then throw up an error page if something
> doesn't check out.
>
> Hope that helps.
> -Brian
>
> On Feb 29, 10:43pm, Timothy Breitenfeldt via NFBCS wrote:
> } Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Accessible Date and Time Pickers
> } 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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