[WG: Accessibility] [maint] About datepickers

[Richwine, Brian L]

I'll take a look at the accessibility. Typically we've excused the accessibility of the date picker, as long as a person can freeform enter the date in the field (and appropriate help info tells them how to enter the date, or there is an existing default value that models the format, etc.). Navigating a calendar date picker just doesn't seem intuitive to users with screen-reading software. It would be great if it was keyboard accessible and tried to be usable for screen-readers too. However it is important to offer both.

-Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Francois Leveque [mailto:jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr] 
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 4:23 AM
To: DAVID ROLDAN MARTINEZ
Cc: mt at collab.sakaiproject.org; Beth Kirschner; Richwine, Brian L
Subject: Re: [maint] About datepickers

Hi David,

http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/#localization works in French, AFAICT.

If Brian gives us good news about its accessibility, it would be great if other members of the i18n community could try it in their language before going further.

Best,
      J-F

On 13/10/2011 09:48, DAVID ROLDAN MARTINEZ wrote:
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>           Hi all,
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>           Almost each Sakai tool uses a different datepicker and this makes very difficult to manage i18n bugs because we are always finding the same issues but in different datepickers. As you can imagine, this is very frustrating and increases the workload as it's needed to redo the same work for different datepickers.  Besides, this also decreases usability and accessibility, as users has to deal with several formats and ways of doing things.
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>           I would like to propose to find a common solution for the whole Sakai or, at least, for those tool included in the main distribution (though, contrib tools can be encouraged to use the same solution). But, before to launch the request to sakai-dev and file JIRAs, I would like to get your feedback. My proposal is to use jquery datepicker: http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker, which is the only one I've found (if you know more, please, let me know) that is fully i18ned.
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>           Best,
>                David