[Due for payment 2026-06-01] [$250] Other A11y: Many Pages: Date of Birth picker automatically opens when screen loads

[elisenwazuoke]

Action Performed:

Prerequisites:

• the user is signed in

1. Open the app
2. Tap the Account tab
3. Tap the Profile button
4. Tap the Date of birth menu item
5. Note the behavior when the screen loads

Other Occurrences:

1. Create Expense > Confirm details > Date: same issue
2. Reports > Filters > Date > On/After/Before: same issue

Expected Result:

The Date of Birth picker should not open automatically when the screen loads.
The picker should only open when the user activates it (via tap or screen reader gesture).

Actual Result:

On screen load, the Date of Birth picker automatically opens.

Area issue was found in:

Profile Subsections

Failed WCAG checkpoints

WCAG 3.2.1 On Focus
https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/on-focus

User impact:

This helps people with visual disabilities, cognitive limitations, and motor impairments by reducing the chance that a change of context will occur unexpectedly.

Suggested resolution:

Ensure the date picker does not open automatically.
https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/on-focus

Environment(s)

Apple iPhone 14 Pro - iOS 18.7.1, Wi-Fi - Native (No mobile browser)
Samsung Galaxy Note10 Plus - Android 12, H0T Mobile - Native (No mobile browser)

Screenshots/Videos

Bug7005423_1763522959196.Date_of_Birth_picker_automatically_opens_when_screen_loads.mp4

Version Number: Production
Reproducible in staging?: NA
Reproducible in production?: Yes
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): NA
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856 NA
Notes/Photos/Videos: Any additional supporting documentation Yes
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL: https://platform.applause.com/company/12102/products/36628/community-issues/7005423
Issue reported by: NA
Slack conversation: NA

Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @mallenexpensify

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• Upwork Job ID: 2056677746526622722
• Last Price Increase: 2026-05-19

[melvin-bot]

This issue has not been updated in over 15 days. eroding to Monthly issue.

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[ChavdaSachin]

Proposal

Please re-state the problem that we are trying to solve in this issue.

Many Pages: Date of Birth picker automatically opens when screen loads

What is the root cause of that problem?

Accessibility improvement

What changes do you think we should make in order to solve the problem?

This happens coz we pass autofocus prop to those pages.
To prevent this - search all the uses of DatePicker input component throughout the code and remove autofocus prop to prevent autofocus accessibility issue.

For example

App/src/pages/settings/Profile/PersonalDetails/DateOfBirthPage.tsx

Line 74 in ae948c6

autoFocus

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

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[melvin-bot]

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6 days overdue. This is scarier than being forced to listen to Vogon poetry!

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10 days overdue. Is anyone even seeing these? Hello?

[rushatgabhane]

closed by #79242