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From: Hill, Barry (Accessibility Tester)
Date: Tue, Feb 13 2024 2:31AM
Subject: Web calendar
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Hi all
This old chestnut again. Our designers are trying to come up with a calendar/date picker for a sports site that covers two years, 12 months in arrears and 12 months in advance. The idea is that the user picks the sport, then picks a date to get details of the events on that date. Currently, they have a very basic date picker that shows one month with available dates each as an individual button in a list, but it's far from perfect, particularly for switch controllers.
Things to consider:
* Not all dates will have events on for the chosen sport. How can this be portrayed;
* The user needs to know the currently selected date;
* The user needs to be notified of the change to content on update;
* The user needs to access the calendar on each page to be able to quickly change dates;
* This needs to be usable for screen readers, screen magnification, switch controllers, and voice control.
So, any suggestions?
Many thanks in anticipation.
Cheers
Barry
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From: jp Jamous
Date: Wed, Feb 14 2024 11:35AM
Subject: Re: Web calendar
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Here are some suggestions:
* Not all dates will have events on for the chosen sport. How can this be portrayed;
For screen readers you can use on each button aria-disabled="true". That would announce to screen readers that it is disabled, which means no event occurs on that date. For low-vision/color-blind, you can use shapes and colors. For example, Black on White means no event and Dark Blue on white means there is an event. Add a dashed line for the bottom border of the button when there is no event and a solid bottom border when there is an event. Of course, you need to provide that explanation in text before the calendar so users know what those shapes and colors mean.
* The user needs to know the currently selected date;
Same as the above one using shapes and colors. For screen readers use aria-disabled="false", because there is an event on that date and aria-pressed="true", which would announce that the button is selected.
* The user needs to be notified of the change to content on update;
I don't follow this one. Can you provide more information? Where would the update come from? Back-end or something the user does?
* The user needs to access the calendar on each page to be able to quickly change dates;
This one is a vague description as well. Depending on how the page is designed, the calendar can be a button that would open a modal or have a calendar region present on the page. The right answer is to know how the page is designed.
* This needs to be usable for screen readers, screen magnification, switch controllers, and voice control.
What I suggested above will cover most of those. I believe voice recognition software like Dragon can detect the aria attributes. A quick google search should help.
So, any suggestions?
Many thanks in anticipation.
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Hi all
This old chestnut again. Our designers are trying to come up with a calendar/date picker for a sports site that covers two years, 12 months in arrears and 12 months in advance. The idea is that the user picks the sport, then picks a date to get details of the events on that date. Currently, they have a very basic date picker that shows one month with available dates each as an individual button in a list, but it's far from perfect, particularly for switch controllers.
Things to consider:
* Not all dates will have events on for the chosen sport. How can this be portrayed;
* The user needs to know the currently selected date;
* The user needs to be notified of the change to content on update;
* The user needs to access the calendar on each page to be able to quickly change dates;
* This needs to be usable for screen readers, screen magnification, switch controllers, and voice control.
So, any suggestions?
Many thanks in anticipation.
Cheers
Barry
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