GWT DatePicker Keyboard Navigation

Question

I have a GWT datepicker and I am trying to make this accessible from the keyboard. I am having difficulty in exposing the actual date elements in the calendar and I was wondering if anyone has had any luck with this? All I want really is to be able to tab into the different dates in the calendar.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Strangely. If you launch - http://gwt.google.com/samples/Showcase/Showcase.html#!CwDatePicker

Tab Click 1 - ?
Tab Click 2 - GWT Homepage
Tab Click 3 - More Examples
Tab Click 4 - Country/I18N seleciton
Tab Click 5 and Click Enter key - Month Change on Datepicker
Tab Click 6 and Click Enter key - Date 1 gets selected for current month
Tab Click 7 and Click Enter key - Date 2 gets selected for current month
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.so on

The keyboard support with tabindex seems to work with embedded DatePicker!!! Tested it on FireFox and Chrome. It seems only cell highlighting needs to be done to improve User Interaction!!!!!!!!!

Sadly this is not feasible with Tabpanel or Datebox's popup Datepicker ( hides on tab click ).

GWT had some interesting ideas on it @ http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit-incubator/wiki/accessibility

It has now got a broader scope @ Dev Guide on Accessibility However, the new scope on accessibility does not list/mention out datepicker or keyboard access.