USWDS - Memorable date: Dropdown search functionality doesn't meet some users' expectations. #5910
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Affects: Accessibility 🟡
Relates to the accessibility of our components
Needs: Discussion
We need to discuss an approach to this issue
Package: Memorable date
Role: Dev
Development/engineering skills needed
Severity: 1 🟡
Major functionality, no workaround
Status: Triage
We're triaging this issue and grooming if necessary
Usability Testing
Relates to usability testing fidings
Summary
Users, especially those with visual impairments, expect to be able to search by typing either the number or the name for the month in memorable date. The combo box for the 'month' input in memorable date only allows for typing the number of the month, but usability testing showed that it'd be beneficial to allow for both name or number searching.
Observations
This mostly applied to participants who are visually impaired (2 blind, 2 low vision) in our testing, although we did have one 'typically sighted' participant who commented that we should allow users to search with either name or number.
Those with visual impairments who typed in the combo box to search for and select a month were split on what they typed: half of them typed the number (for example, "01" for January) and half typed the name of the month (e.g. "D" for December). The combo box does not allow searching my month name which was a friction point for those users. See video clip 🔒
Affected user groups
Research method
Usability testing with 8 participants with disabilities:
Screen reader software participants used: JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver
[Link to public findings report forthcoming...here is the internal Zebra findings report] 🔒
Next steps
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