Accessibility in .NET MAUI Date Time Picker (SfDateTimePicker)

21 Jul 20261 minute to read

The .NET MAUI Date Time Picker allows users to interact with the Header, Column Header, Footer, and Picker Items.

Header Layout

The header supports localization through the DateFormat and TimeFormat properties of the DateTimePickerHeaderView. For example, with DateFormat="dd_MMM_yyyy" and TimeFormat="h_mm_ss_tt":

Format	Accessibility
Date Format	1/January/2026
Time Format	10:15:30 AM (or) PM

Column Header Layout

The column header supports localization through the configurable text properties. 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 validation buttons (OK and Cancel) support localization through their text properties. 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	Select the next item in the currently focused column.
UpArrow	Select the previous item in the currently focused column.
RightArrow/Tab	Move focus to the column on the right.
LeftArrow/Shift+Tab	Move focus to the column on the left.
Esc/Enter	Exit and commit selection.