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Date picker

The date picker React Carbon component has been tested against the latest W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level A and AA success criteria and violations have been identified as high priority issues. This document will be updated when these accessibility issues are resolved.

Accessibility testing status

For every latest release, Carbon runs tests on all components to meet the accessibility requirements. These different statuses report the work that Carbon has done in the back end. These tests appear only when the components are stable.

Latest version: ^1.51.0 | Framework: React (@carbon/react)

ComponentAccessibility testStatusLink to source code
Date pickerTest(s) that ensure the initial render state of a component is accessible.
Passes all automated tests with no reported accessibility violations.
GitHub link
Tests that ensure additional states of the component are accessible. This could be interactive states of a component or its multiple variants.
Passes all automated tests with no reported accessibility violations.
Tests that ensure focus is properly managed, and all interactive functions of a component have a proper keyboard-accessible equivalent.
Passes all automated tests with no reported accessibility violations.
This manual testing ensures that the visual information on the screen is properly conveyed and read correctly by screen readers such as JAWS, VoiceOver, and NVDA.
A human has manually tested this component, e.g. screen reader testing.
Fluid date pickerTest(s) that ensure the initial render state of a component is accessible.
Automated or manual testing has been temporarily deferred.
GitHub link
Tests that ensure additional states of the component are accessible. This could be interactive states of a component or its multiple variants.
Automated or manual testing has been temporarily deferred.
Tests that ensure focus is properly managed, and all interactive functions of a component have a proper keyboard-accessible equivalent.
Test data is either not available or not applicable for this component state.
This manual testing ensures that the visual information on the screen is properly conveyed and read correctly by screen readers such as JAWS, VoiceOver, and NVDA.
Test data is either not available or not applicable for this component state.

Accessibility considerations

  1. The date picker labels should clearly describe the dates that the user needs to input, such as arrival date or departure date when making travel arrangements.

Resources

Accessibility testing

Automated, manual and screen reader accessibility verification test has been performed on the date picker React Carbon component. WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA success criteria issues have been identified and the list of open accessibility violations is available in the Carbon Component GitHub repository.

Automated test

Automated test environmentResults
- macOS Mojave version 10.14.2 with VoiceOver
- Chrome version 77.0.3865.90
- Dynamic Assessment Plugin (DAP) version 1.8.0.0 - IBM Accessibility WCAG 2.1 Sept. 2019 Ruleset
- Carbon React version 7.7.1
DAP test:
- No violations