[NFBCS] Inaccessible calendars on websites

[David Andrews]

Tracy, date pickers are notoriously inaccessible. 
They can be made accessible, but often are not. 
Sometimes you can trigger the right things, or 
fill in a edit field, but not always. I suspect 
this primarily comes from the "frameworks" that 
developers use to make web sites. The problem is 
so common it has to come down to everybody using bad components.

Curtis is right, as usual, there isn't much you 
can do, IRA may be a good solution.

I recently bought an airline ticket, leaving one 
day early. Even a sighted person was tricked. It 
would have cost me $1200 to change the ticket ... 
so I had to suck it up and go to Paris a day early.

Dave

At 11:43 AM 6/14/2024, you wrote:
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>I’ve had them on the CVS website when I was 
>making an appointment for a vaccine.  I just 
>had one on an airlines form where I was 
>requesting info about paperwork for my guide 
>dog.  There was another recently, but of course I’ve forgotten.
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>Tracy
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>From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf 
>Of Christopher Chaltain via NFBCS
>Sent: Friday, June 14, 2024 12:38 PM
>To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>Cc: Christopher Chaltain <chaltain at outlook.com>; carcione at access.net
>Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Inaccessible calendars on websites
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>Not that I can help, but do you have any examples?
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>Christopher (AKA CJ) on the move
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>Chaltain at Gmail
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>On Jun 14, 2024, at 10:38 AM, Tracy Carcione 
>via NFBCS <<mailto:nfbcs at nfbnet.org>nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>I have been to several websites that were 
>accessible except for one place that required a 
>date, and the only way to put the date in was with an inaccessible calendar.
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>Is there any work-around for these things I 
>don’t know about.  I always end up calling 
>AIRA to do Team Viewer and fill in the date for me.
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>I am using the latest Jaws and either Chrome or Firefox.
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>Tracy
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