[NFBCS] Inaccessible calendars on websites
carcione at access.net
carcione at access.net
Sat Jun 15 16:04:52 UTC 2024
I tried 23-oct-2024, then the same with a capital O, then both versions with
no dashes, then the day and month with no dashes, and then I howled and
called AIRA.
Tracy
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From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Doug Lee via NFBCS
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2024 11:03 AM
To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Doug Lee <dgl at dlee.org>
Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Inaccessible calendars on websites
Actually I never thought carefully about it until I started writing my reply
to Tracy earlier; but this
01-Jun-2024 format is one of the only ones I've seen, with the possible
exception of the ISO 2024-06-01 format, that is completely unambiguous. That
much about this three-character-month format is cool. But of course, it's
also English-centric...
On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 07:58:23AM -0700, NFBCS mailing list wrote:
Hello. And, that, is why web sites don't have users type in the
dates they want; there are so many formats to choose from that users would
time out if they had to slog through error
messages saying what they did wrong. Even worse, in the case of mm-dd-yyyy
versus dd-mm-yyyy,
there are many dates which overlap with those two formats and are completely
wrong, but would not be caught by a mechanical checker. Consider:
05-01-2024. That's either May 1, 2024 or 5 January 2024, but if a user
typed it in, the web site couldn't error check it and say one way or another
if it was correct. I remember reading a lot of Unix source code when I
lived in England and the Sccs revision dates looked like: 03/02/83. Was
that March second or February 3rd? Who could say unless one could find an
example where there was a date that didn't work in one of the formats.
One technique I've discovered for getting through these date entry
issues on some web sites, assuming one is using a screen readder on a touch
screen capable machine, is to use my finger to find the date I want. If I
assume the calendar is a grid of dates where the rows are days of the week
and the columns are dayes of the month, I can usually find the correct date
fairly quickly by moving my finger around as the dates are announced.
-thanks
-Brian
On Jun 15, 7:28am, Tracy Carcione via NFBCS wrote:
} Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Inaccessible calendars on websites } 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
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Doug Lee dgl at dlee.org http://www.dlee.org
"When your best-laid plans have turned to dust, vacuum!"
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