260121 - Make datepicker and timepicker keyboard accessible

Status: NEW

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

in the date and timepickers, you should be able to select a date and time using
the arrow keys.
This also means that timepicker needs some visual indication of which element is
hovered.

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/toolkit/content/widgets/colorpicker.xml
already does something like that, code could be 'borrowed' from it.

Comment 1

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

A group of three students from Brazil in a course about open source is going to be working on this bug as a student-project. Looking forward to your patch(es), thanks Eduardo!

Comment 2

[Abhishek Bhattacharya [:babhishek21]]

Is it open? Anybody following this? 
If no one else is involved, how do I start on this?

Comment 3

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

Hi Abhishek, unfortunately I haven't gotten around to answering earlier. I think the best way to get started is devise a plan on how exactly the keyboard interaction would look like, separately for datepicker and timepicker. Which keys would do what in what order? We'll go through some comments on the proposal first.

Then you can get going, a good way to get started with the build environment is this guide: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Simple_Thunderbird_build

The file that needs changing is likely here: http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/calendar/resources/content/datetimepickers/

Let me know if you have questions, you can also catch me on irc.mozilla.org #calendar

Comment 4

[Abhishek Bhattacharya [:babhishek21]]

Hey Philipp, looks like Mozilla is back for GSOC 2016. Given the nature of this project, maybe its a good idea to add it to official project ideas list. (That page is awfully empty right now. :P) Perhaps you could mentor.

Has anyone followed up on this, since the last time we spoke about a year ago?

Comment 6

[chrizilla]

depends on bug 888320 according to bug 1323350#comment7

Comment 8

[chrizilla]

adding dependency from closed duplicate bug 1526552

Comment 9

[Beki]

Guys, this bug has been open for 20 years, what's the big deal?
Do you need help? Where do I start?
If you're unsure about the implementation, just copy the chrome's implementation.
Not being able to work with date-time related inputs are embarrassing in 2024. It is almost 2025.

Comment 10

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

This bug is for the calendar component; e.g. in Thunderbird. If you're talking about HTML date inputs, the date picker was made keyboard accessible nearly 2 years ago over in bug 1676068.