Live Region Not Announced about date-picker HOT 5 CLOSED

@aardrian Thank you for reporting this! I think we may have a fix for this coming soon-ish. We thought we already fixed this, but seems like it’s still an issue in some readers.

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Was able to reproduce this in both JAWS and NVDA. VoiceOver does announce the region. Not sure why it is not getting announced in the others. I tried to fix by leaving the region blank until the picker is open (hoping that the screen readers would then see the text change, and then announce), but that didn't work either.

TBH live region kind of feels like the wrong choice here. It's not really live/dynamic, the content is static. But I'm unsure what would be more apporpriate

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@aardrian I'm just going back through these issues. If you remember, we eventually settled on using a plain ol' table (rather than role="grid") for the calendar, so i'm thinking this help text is now redundant, since table navigation commands will be the standard for screen reader users rather than our custom keyboard shortcuts. What do you think? Should I drop it?

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@WickyNilliams I don't recall the instructions in place now, but if it is a table, announces as a table, and supports native table navigation in the screen reader, then there is no need to tell the screen reader user how to navigate it.

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OK thanks, that was my intuition.

It says "You can use arrow keys to navigate dates". This was true when we previously used the grid role since key presses get passed through to our code, but now it's a plain table the advice isn't just unnecessary, it's wrong!

I'll remove it and resolve this bug that way :)

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