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Date pickers should be both keyboard accessible and able to be magnified in the browser. This is probably beyond the scope of HTML5 itself and covered in UAAG but mention it just to clarify.
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The HTML Accessibility Task Force intends to track these issues, per the proposal at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2010Jan/0245.html.
http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/44061/20100520_bugs/results Close as far as the HTML bug tracker is concerned. Refer the issue to be addressed in an external user interface recommendations document, initially to be coordinated by the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2010Aug/0350.html