Assessbility issue in kendo datepicker.

[Balu]

This is regarding the screen reader issues that kendo-datepicker faces only on chrome.

the screen reader was able to read the whole date that has been selected in the date picker because we added a property called title.

Further tabbing to change day/month/year individually causes the screen reader to just read "selected" or "unselected" which doesn't make much sense.

 

Could you please suggest a resolution for this one?

[Yanmario]

Hi Balu,

The developer team recently had a discussion over this behavior. The limitation is caused due to there being only one input element that doesn't allow to set different values of the announcements when changing the selection. We do plan to update the DatePicker(that will also fix the DateTimePicker) to improve its accessibility. Please subscribe to the following GitHub issue for further updates:

https://github.com/telerik/kendo-angular/issues/1707

I know this might be disappointing, but at this current time, there isn't an available workaround for this specific accessibility issue. Subscribing to the issue would be the best way to receive updates on when the new accessibility improvements are applied to the component.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused until the DatePicker/DateTimePicker accessibility is improved.

Regards,
Yanmario
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