Accessibility in .NET MAUI Date Time Picker (SfDateTimePicker)

21 Jan 20251 minute to read

The .NET MAUI Date Time Picker control has interact with the Header, Column Header, Footer, and Picker Items.

Header Layout

The SfDateTimePicker control has interact header text with localization of header layout. It contains DateFormat and TimeFormat property of the DateTimePickerHeaderView. For example,

Format	Accessibility
Date Format	1/January/2023
Time Format	10:15:30 AM (or) PM

Column Header Layout

The SfDateTimePicker control has interact column header text with localization of column header layout. It contains DayHeaderText, MonthHeaderText, YearHeaderText, HourHeaderText, MinuteHeaderText, SecondHeaderText, and MeridiemHeaderText properties in the DateTimePickerColumnHeaderView. The default value of DayHeaderText is “Day”, MonthHeaderText is “Month”, YearHeaderText is “Year”, HourHeaderText is “Hour”, MinuteHeaderText is “Minute”, SecondHeaderText is “Second”, and MeridiemHeaderText is “string.Empty”.

Footer Layout

The SfDateTimePicker control has interact validation buttons (OK and Cancel) with localization of footer layout. The Default value of the OkButtonText property is “OK”, and CancelButtonText is “Cancel”.

Picker Items

The SfDateTimePicker control has interact with the item source in picker items. The item source contains based on the Date Format and Time Format. For example,

Format	Example
d, M, h, H	1
dd, MM, hh, HH, mm, ss	01
MMM	January
yyyy	2023
tt	AM/PM

Keyboard

SfDateTimePicker supports selection using keyboard interactions.

Key	Description
Tab	Focus the picker.
Enter	Opens the selected picker.
DownArrow	Selects an item from the currently expanded list by moving downwards.
UpArrow	Selects an item from the currently expanded list by moving upwards.
RightArrow/Tab	Navigates through the selected item in the right direction.
LeftArrow/Shift+Tab	Navigates through the selected item in the left direction.
Esc/Enter	Exit and commit selection.