DateField: VoiceOver identifies Date Segment as stepper, but increment/decrement Controls does not work
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Description
### Provide a general summary of the issue here
VoiceOver incorrectly identifies date segment as stepper, but `Control + Option + Up/Down Arrow` does not change the value
### 🤔 Expected Behavior?
When using VoiceOver on macOS, if a date segment (such as day, month, or year) is identified as a stepper, pressing `Control + Option + Up Arrow` should increase the value, and `Control + Option + Down Arrow` should decrease the value accordingly
### 😯 Current Behavior
VoiceOver identifies the date segment as a stepper and announces that the value can be changed using `Control + Option + Up/Down Arrow`. However, pressing these key combinations does not actually change the value. The interaction appears unresponsive, and the date segment remains unchanged
### 💁 Possible Solution
Explicitly implementing accessibility increment/decrement behaviour in the component so that VoiceOver can trigger value changes as expected when using `Control + Option + Up/Down Arrow`
### 🔦 Context
For the native date input, Voiceover correctly identifies it as stepper and `Control + Option + Up/Down Arrow` works
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/input/date
### 🖥️ Steps to Reproduce
1. Open the following component in Safari on macOS: https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/react-aria/DateField.html
2. Enable VoiceOver (Command + F5)
3. Navigate to the date segment
4. VoiceOver announces the segment as a stepper and says you can change the value using `Control + Option + Up/Down Arrow`
5. Attempt to use `Control + Option + Up/Down Arrow`
6. Observe that the value does not change
### Version
3.34.1
### What browsers are you seeing the problem on?
Firefox, Chrome, Safari
### If other, please specify.
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### What operating system are you using?
macOS
### 🧢 Your Company/Team
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### 🕷 Tracking Issue
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Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the DateField example at react-spectrum.adobe.com/react-aria/DateField.html and reproduce the issue using Safari on macOS with VoiceOver enabled. Compare the component's behavior with the native date input described on MDN; done means VoiceOver's Control + Option + Up/Down Arrow changes the focused date segment as announced.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- react, typescript
- Domain
- accessibility, frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100