[NFBCS] Inaccessible calendars on websites

[Doug Lee]

My guess, and I think I've seen this, is that the wanted format is, by example, 08-Jun-2024, where the mmm
is the first three letters of the month name.

On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 07:28:06AM -0400, NFBCS mailing list wrote:
The website I was trying to use yesterday did allow me to type in a date,
which I always prefer, but it's an Irish site.  They wanted the date in
format dd-mmm-yyyy.  What the heck is a 3-byte month?  I tried everything I
could think of, but couldn't hit on the right formula
But there are plenty of sites where typing in a date is not even an option.
Tracy


-----Original Message-----
From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Mike Gorse via NFBCS
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2024 8:38 PM
To: David Andrews via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Mike Gorse <mike at straddlethebox.org>
Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Inaccessible calendars on websites

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

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