Summary

This issue originates from this comment in #5374:

The date picker component cannot be navigated easily with touch navigation with VoiceOver Gestures in iOS Safari.

Here are some of the items that were discovered:

• ⚠️ The initial readout provides keyboard instructions instead of touch instructions
• ⚠️ In iOS with VoiceOver gestures, the readout when navigating through dates using left and right swipe now includes the abbreviations for the day of the week before the date “Th - sept 28”, “Fr - sept 29”. It is not immediately clear what these letters mean (”Thursday” and “Friday”) and it would be better if they were not read out. (This issue does not happen in develop)
• ⚠️ Up and down swipe in iOS with VO Gestures do not work. Reads out “Heading not found” and does not move focus.
• ⚠️ I could not discover an easy way to navigate into the top navigation bar (could only swipe left/right).
• 💡 It would be great if the text input for date picker opened the number keypad. Right now it opens the standard alpha keypad.