[NFBCS] Inaccessible calendars on websites

[Christopher Chaltain]

I think this is doable. In Outlook I type any kind of date format, and it does a good job of figuring out what I meant. If not then I can try a slightly different format. I don't see why this wouldn't be possible on a web site or in any application. An allowable format or an example could also be shown.

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Christopher (AKA CJ) =>÷
Chaltain at Outlook, USA

-----Original Message-----
From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Brian Buhrow via NFBCS
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2024 9:58 AM
To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Brian Buhrow <buhrow at nfbcal.org>; carcione at access.net
Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Inaccessible calendars on websites

        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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