[NFBCS] Inaccessible calendars on websites

[Nicole Torcolini]

For the same reason that so many other website components are inaccessible:
Developers either don't know or have other priorities, and, if they are told
that they have to make their websites accessibility, most either don't or do
but inadvertently make the problem worse by doing something that they think
will be more accessible but in reality is incredibly stupid.

-----Original Message-----
From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Mike Gorse via NFBCS
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2024 5:38 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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