Informal poll about date inputs on website forms.
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Informal poll about date inputs on website forms. What’s your preference?
If you have a disability and use assistive devices, I invite you to comment with your thoughts. (Any thoughts from anyone are also welcomed.)
@markwyner depends on the date. If its just a few days ahead, a calendar is easier. If I have to scroll back one million years to find my birth date, its hell.
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Informal poll about date inputs on website forms. What’s your preference?
If you have a disability and use assistive devices, I invite you to comment with your thoughts. (Any thoughts from anyone are also welcomed.)
@markwyner I mainly use the web on desktop/laptop, ie. with a keyboard.
I prefer to type a date as I find it faster than having to navigate a calendar date picker with a mouse.
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@markwyner depends on the date. If its just a few days ahead, a calendar is easier. If I have to scroll back one million years to find my birth date, its hell.
@JohannaMakesGames @markwyner Totally agree, it’s a long scroll from 2026 to 1950 !
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Informal poll about date inputs on website forms. What’s your preference?
If you have a disability and use assistive devices, I invite you to comment with your thoughts. (Any thoughts from anyone are also welcomed.)
@markwyner Type a date! I’m disabled but I don’t use, yet, assistive devices, and scrolling to navigate through dd/mm/yyyy is awful.
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Informal poll about date inputs on website forms. What’s your preference?
If you have a disability and use assistive devices, I invite you to comment with your thoughts. (Any thoughts from anyone are also welcomed.)
@markwyner i choose 'we need something new' bc i would like to suggest we do away with time altogether, and capitalism, and 'work' should only be allowed to contain activities you LOVE doing.
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Informal poll about date inputs on website forms. What’s your preference?
If you have a disability and use assistive devices, I invite you to comment with your thoughts. (Any thoughts from anyone are also welcomed.)
@markwyner typing is best but which format… that’s why I voted for calendar.
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Informal poll about date inputs on website forms. What’s your preference?
If you have a disability and use assistive devices, I invite you to comment with your thoughts. (Any thoughts from anyone are also welcomed.)
@markwyner click/tap from a mini calendar when the navigation choices are only previous month and next month is so user hostile.
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Informal poll about date inputs on website forms. What’s your preference?
If you have a disability and use assistive devices, I invite you to comment with your thoughts. (Any thoughts from anyone are also welcomed.)
@markwyner it's awful when you have to go back month by month for 60 years (720 clicks = rsi) on a calendar, but if the date format is unfamiliar say mm/dd/yyyy instead of the more logical dd/mm/yyyy or International Standard yyyy/mm/dd, it's a bind.
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Informal poll about date inputs on website forms. What’s your preference?
If you have a disability and use assistive devices, I invite you to comment with your thoughts. (Any thoughts from anyone are also welcomed.)
@markwyner I prefer both, when you can type a date *and* select from the calendar, and both controls are doubly-linked and accessible. I.e., I type the date, like 28/02/2026, there is an Open Calendar button. When I click it, I see usual table, where 28/02/2026 is pressed and selected with colors for sighted people.
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Informal poll about date inputs on website forms. What’s your preference?
If you have a disability and use assistive devices, I invite you to comment with your thoughts. (Any thoughts from anyone are also welcomed.)
Both have their use cases and are implemented in the HTML date control in most browsers.
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