<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Not sure how much this would help and it does not definitely solve the underlying problems with these inaccessible datepickers that many websites use, but one solution that you can try is to see if the URL has the dates on it. It doesn't work on forms that you fill and have to immediately submit, but for many instances where you have to search, like in an airline booking system, the info, like your travel dates, airport origin and destination, whether it's a one-way or roundtrip, can be found on the url of the website after the question mark symbol. This only works for searches where the developer uses the get methorequest d as opposed to the post request method in a server requests. An example is this: if you had a website URL like this, <a href="https://mobile.southwest.com/air/booking/select-depart.html?adultPassengersCount=1&departureDate=2024-08-16&destinationAirportCode=DCA&fareType=USD&lapInfantPassengersCount=0&originationAirportCode=MCO&returnDate=&tripType=oneWay">https://mobile.southwest.com/air/booking/select-depart.html?adultPassengersCount=1&departureDate=2024-08-16&destinationAirportCode=DCA&fareType=USD&lapInfantPassengersCount=0&originationAirportCode=MCO&returnDate=&tripType=oneWay</a>, you can see after the question mark symbol after the word "html", the info I put down for a flight search request. So what Iambasically saying is that if this was an airlinebooking system, put random dates andthen edit the dates from the URL. Hope this can be helpful in some way.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Jose</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 14, 2024, at 8:21 PM, David Andrews via NFBCS <nfbcs@nfbnet.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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.<br><br>
Curtis is right, as usual, there isn't much you can do, IRA may be a good
solution.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
Dave<br><br>
At 11:43 AM 6/14/2024, you wrote:<br>
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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.<br><br>
Tracy<br><br>
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<b>From:</b> NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Christopher Chaltain via NFBCS<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 14, 2024 12:38 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
<nfbcs@nfbnet.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Christopher Chaltain <chaltain@outlook.com>;
carcione@access.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [NFBCS] Inaccessible calendars on websites<br><br>
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Not that I can help, but do you have any examples?<br><br>
— <br><br>
Christopher (AKA CJ) on the move<br><br>
Chaltain at Gmail<br><br>
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<dd>On Jun 14, 2024, at 10:38 AM, Tracy Carcione via NFBCS
<<a href="mailto:nfbcs@nfbnet.org">nfbcs@nfbnet.org</a>>
wrote:<br><br>
</dd><dd> <br><br>
</dd><dd>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. <br><br>
</dd><dd>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.<br><br>
</dd><dd>I am using the latest Jaws and either Chrome or Firefox.<br><br>
</dd><dd>Tracy
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