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From: Greg Gamble
Date: Jun 12, 2013 4:14PM

Twitter Bootstrap does use Aria tags. It's the custom code you add to it that needs to be fixed. Bootstrap in of itself is pretty good from my testing. They just have different ideas on how things should work, and considering the people who are driving it, are doing a good job with it too.

Alerts are one area where they do things differently. They're developing it with a stoplight theme/view, where the color is the information part and the text is the fluff. Thats the reason they, the alerts, fail a contrast test.

Another issue that people complain about is the size of the code base. If you take only what your going to use, it's actually a descent size.

Greg