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 I answered type (as long as my hands are working), but that's because I've experienced a lot of pull-downs and mini-calendars with hellacious UIs that were really hard to use.
If it were easier to use, my answer might change to no preference. It's certainly easier when I'm hurting to use the Wacom tablet to point at something than to type.
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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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