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CMS Design System: Calendar Picker

Documents calendar picker as a single date field with text entry and a visual calendar, recommends it for recent or future dates and day-of-week relevance, allows flexible typed formats, warns against memorable or distant-past dates, and describes focus return, keyboard navigation, screen reader announcements, and disabled date restrictions.

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Pattern Decisions This Source Supports

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Date picker Choose date picker for single-date scheduling when calendar position, weekday, or availability changes the decision. Opening the calendar moves focus to the current, selected, or first available date without losing the labelled input context. CMS calendar picker guidance supports future or recent date use, flexible typed entry, memorable-date alternatives, focus return, keyboard support, and disabled restriction announcements.

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Publisher: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Design System. Last checked: .