terra-date-picker UX Audit

[ryanthemanuel]

terra-date-picker

Known Aliases

Document any known aliases of the component, decide if another name makes more sense.

• Has known aliases
• Requires name change

Design Standard Doc

Any documentation needed to be added to terra-ui describing the make up and usage of the component
Any doc examples that need to be updated?

• Missing design standard documentation linkage.
  • Followups are needed from the design standard standpoint

Guides

Any guides needed to be added to terra-ui describing the usage of this component when used with other components.

• Missing Guides
  • Need to update the guides to list fields up front and field-less pickers shouldn't display as if they are fields
  • Field documentation could be beefed up a bit
• Missing UX recommended Usage.
• Deprecation guide

Accessibility Guides

• Missing Accessibility Guides

Behaviours

• Missing behaviours
  • Change Today to Go to today
  • Arrow that allows you to go forward and backward a month should disable not go away
• Contains bad practice behaviours that should be removed

Accessibility

• Meets wcag 2.0/section 508 standards
  • Potentially change the "Today" button to reset navigation back to today rather than select today
  • Today button is not in the appropriate tab order
  • [terra-date-picker] Accessibility Issues - Part 2 of 2 #1158
  • Followups to ensure that keyboard accessibility is working appropriately
• Meets wcag 2.1/en 301 549 standards

Deprecation

• Component is a bad pattern and should be deprecated.

Related Issues

Other Considerations

Theming needs to be done for the date picker itself
Arrow is pointing to the help text