[NFBCS] Inaccessible calendars on websites

[Mike Gorse]

Why can't I just type in the date that I'd need? It would be sooooooo much 
easier!

On Fri, 14 Jun 2024, David Andrews via NFBCS wrote:

> 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