Date picker accessibility for screen reader
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Accessibility
Comp: Datepicker
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- Dominant language
- JavaScript
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Description
Are there any plans to improve the date picker accessibility for screen readers? Right now if you tab through each day in the calendar using the keyboard, the day and month are not ready by the screen reader.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the date picker keyboard flow with a screen reader and inspect the date picker entry point responsible for each day’s accessible announcement. Done means tabbing through calendar days causes the screen reader to announce both the day and month; no file or test is identified in the issue.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, jquery
- Domain
- accessibility, frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100